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This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
Join Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) for a celebration and showcase of emerging documentary work. Everyone is welcome – students, faculty, staff and community members. View exhibitions of CDS …
Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with sports anthropologist Tracie Canada and award-winning author and MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib on race, exploitation, and …
Sponsored by Duke Arts and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Chicago-based new music ensemble, Dal Niente, premieres new works written for them by Duke graduate student composers; Erich Barganier, Josué …
Please join us at the MFA Carpentry Shop on Friday, April 25th 6-9PM to connect with and celebrate one another in the spirit of experimental and documentary media. The MFAEDA …
The Duke University String School presents its Spring 2025 Violin and Cello Choir Concert. Admission is free – No need to purchase tickets to attend.
For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the …
Duke University String School presents its Spring 2025 Orchestra Concert, “Music of the Americas”. Admission is free – No need to purchase tickets to attend.
Duke Chapel’s fifty-bell carillon is among the oldest and largest such instruments in the American South. Both the instrument and the recital series are named in honor of the late …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
Join us and Letters Community Bookshop for a roundtable discussion of Bettina Judd’s book of poetry, Patient., facilitated by this year’s Anne Firor Scott Public Scholarship Fellow, Kelsey Desir. It …
The Black Feminist Working Group, co-convened by Jazmin Maço (Duke University, PhD, Art History) and Rukimani PV (Duke University, PhD, Literature), will be hosting the 2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium, …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
The Black Feminist Working Group, co-convened by Jazmin Maço (Duke University, PhD, Art History) and Rukimani PV (Duke University, PhD, Literature), will be hosting the 2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium, …
Jerusalem Quartet returns with Mozart’s so-called ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, which features some of the composer’s boldest harmonic writing.
The Durham Medical Orchestra’s free spring concert will feature the winner of our inaugural Concerto Competition, Marisa D’Silva, playing Jacques Ibert’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra. Marisa has been an …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations …
Join us for an evening of short films, printed works, and pre-graduation fellowship at our home base, The Shop. Family, friends, MFA|EDA community are all welcome.
Join us as we celebrate the MFA|EDA Class of 2025 at the Center for Documentary Studies. Family, friends, colleagues, mentors, partners, diplomas, food, drink, revelry, his, high-fives. Come on by.
May 10 – June 10 Trajectories: Liberated Pathways through Makeup, Photography, and Jewelry, is a multi-media exhibition project that envisions personal and structural trajectories without the shackles of oppression. What …
This site-specific installation by Colombian artist and engineer Miler Lagos is made of cardboard boxes collected on Duke’s campus, stacked and carved to resemble the base of a Ceiba tree.
After months of wearing a GPT device, Meshi has made herself into a hybrid AI-human entity. When speaking as the GPT version of herself, Meshi voices conversational responses generated into her ear in real time.
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka brings her sharp, offbeat humor to Durham. Known for her HBO special “The Intruder”, viral stand-up clips, and of course – her trademark bowl cut.
All Brahms Program: Sonata #1, G Major, Op. 78; Sonata #5, E-flat Major, Op. 120, #2; and Sonata #3, D minor, Op. 108
Described as “the violin’s domme” by The New Yorker, Sudan doesn’t just play the violin—she commands it, looping riffs into whole orchestras, flipping classical training into raw, radiant funk.
Program includes Schubert’s “Quartetsatz;” Mozart’s Viola Quintet, C Major, K. 515; and Dvorak’s String Quartet, G Major, Op. 106
Performing their program “The Passenger” with Louise Alenius’s Piano Trio (2025); Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Piano Trio, OP. 24; Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio #2, E-flat Major, Op. 100
Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman fuses the raw, aching power of authentic Delta Blues with the expansive sound of a chamber orchestra.
Program includes Gyorgy Kurtag’s “Aus der Ferne III;” Dvorak’s from “Cypresses;” Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 #3; Beethoven’s Quartet in C# minor, Op. 131
A stunning tapestry of dance, live music, and home video footage that invites audiences into Jenn Freeman’s life following her Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis at age 33.
Taylor Mac takes on the holidays to celebrate the season in all its dysfunction. “For all those who find caroling, eggnog and enforced family visits destabilizing” (Los Angeles Times)
Performing their program “Masterworks” featuring Maurice Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin” arr. Raaf Hekkema; Omar Thomas’s “Moods and Attitudes;” Derrick Skye’s “A Soulful Nexus;” George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” arr. Raaf Hekkema
Program includes Arriaga’s Quartet #3, E-flat Major; Shostakovich’s Quartet #3, F Major, Op. 73; Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 with the “Grosse Fugue”
Program includes works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Giocomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, Fauré, Mendelssohn, and Ernest Chausson
Program includes Bach’s “Four fugues” from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080; Haydn’s Quartet, F minor, Op. 20 #5; Beethoven’s Quartet, C Major, Op. 59 #3