ANA TIJOUX: HIP-HOP & POLITICS IN CHILE French-Chilean MC Ana Tijoux speaks with David Garcia, Associate Professor of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill, about the politics and realities of contemporary Latin America, including her native Chile, ...

A LIFE IN JAZZ: ABDULLAH IBRAHIM Duke professor and acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey talks with South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim about his wide-ranging career in music. Ibrahim plays with his ensemble Ekaya on ...

A MASTERCLASS WITH CUARTETO CASALS Characterized by “intense focus and a striking unanimity of gesture” (The New York Times), Cuarteto Casals is the first Spanish string quartet to achieve a genuinely international ...

#BLACKMOVEMENTMATTERS: DANCE, HIP-HOP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Rennie Harris, founder and artistic director of hip-hop dance company Rennie Harris Puremovement, chats with Thomas DeFrantz, chair of the Department of African and African American ...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER & WILLIAM GEDNEY M.C. Taylor, leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger, and Jim Findlay, stage director and designer, are joined by photographer and William ...

Stanford University ensemble-in-residence St. Lawrence String Quartet return to Duke Performances with their trademark combination of incisive playing and “irresistible exuberance” (Boston Globe). This quartet is “remarkable not simply for ...

New York sextet yMusic combines “all the prestige and virtuosity of classical music degrees with all the attitude and energy of an indie rock band” (Paste Magazine). They thrive comfortably ...

In Conversation: Caroline Shaw with Will Robin North Carolina Symphony Scholar-in-Residence, Will Robin, also a doctoral candidate in musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill and a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New ...

Artists-in-Residence Event: Rude Mechs • Evolution & Theater: Exploring the Science in the Rude Mechs’ Now Now Oh Now • Presented by Duke Performances, internationally celebrated Austin, Texas theater collective Rude Mechs make their Durham ...

Artists-in-Residence Event: The Bad Plus — Listening to Ornette Coleman with The Bad Plus — The evening prior to their world premiere performance at Duke Performances, The Bad Plus — ...

Artists-in-Residence Event: Calefax Reed Quintet — A Woodwind Master Class with Calefax Reed Quintet — The Calefax Reed Quintet, a unique reed ensemble from Amsterdam, has distinguished itself with its imaginative ...

Artists-in-Residence Events: Companhia Urbana de Dança — Companhia Urbana de Dança: Aesthetics & Activism in Brazilian Dance — Duke anthropologist and capoeira instructor Katya Wesolowski moderates a public discussion with Sonia Destri Lie, artistic director of Companhia ...

Artists-in-Residence Event: Horszowski Trio — A Master Class with the Horszowski Trio — A vital young New York ensemble, the Horszowski Trio was founded in 2011, whereupon the New Yorker declared it “destined ...

— A Conversation with Ronald K. Brown & Jason Moran — Duke professor and dance maker Thomas F. DeFrantz will moderate a conversation at the American Dance Festival’s Samuel H. Scripps Studios ...

Duke Performances has been informed by Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté’s management that they experienced unexpected personal and logistical difficulties as they set off from Bamako to start their US tour. These ...

Duke student tickets have sold out for Ben Folds with yMusic; ample regular price tickets remain available. ### Multi-platinum-selling Nashville singer-songwriter Ben Folds kicks off his 2015 global tour with yMusic at ...

The Ciompi share the season’s second concert with the Amernet String Quartet, an ensemble praised by the New York Times as “immensely satisfying.” The Amernet is Quartet in Residence at ...

Forty years in, Kronos Quartet still feels revolutionary. They have commissioned hundreds of new works for string quartet, recorded almost fifty albums, and brought the work of musicians from across ...

Artists-in-Residence Events: The Campbell Brothers & John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme • Sacred Steel: A Conversation & Demonstration with The Campbell Brothers • In town to perform at the Bull ...

Founded in 2007, this six-person company is already renowned for its dynamic, actor-focused style and lapidary productions of Shakespeare, whose elaborately plotted romance Cymbeline sings out with utter clarity in ...

Founded in 2007, this six-person company is already renowned for its dynamic, actor-focused style and lapidary productions of Shakespeare, whose elaborately plotted romance Cymbeline sings out with utter clarity in ...

Our 2011/2012 classical season begins with a scintillating collaboration between two of the most acclaimed ensembles in the nation. The Orion is prized for its command of the classical repertory ...

Founded by choreographer Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, the award-laden Australian dance company Chunky Move is famed for its beautiful, ambitious work with new media. Obarzanek’s final piece for the ensemble, ...

Hampson is an internationally-renowned opera lead and recitalist, artist in residence with the New York Philharmonic and one of the most respected soloists of his era. Born in Indiana and ...