Sponsored by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation On Easter weekend, a night of operatic scenes with religious and spiritual overtones. Performed with scenery, costumes, and piano accompaniment. Admission is free ...

Featuring a wide variety of Chinese musical genres, including classical, folk, and pop pieces, played on a mix of Eastern and Western instruments. Admission is free – No need to ...

Duke Chorale celebrates its senior class with music about freedom from a variety of cultures and eras. Admission is free – No need to purchase tickets to attend.

Join the Duke Wind Symphony as we present Finale Forte: Senior Night, a special concert featuring works handpicked by our graduating seniors. This evening will celebrate their musical journeys and ...

Duke Symphony Orchestra presents “Senior Night”. Introduction to Khovantchina (1880)……………………………….Modest Mussorgsky Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 20 (1896)……………….Alexander Scriabin Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor (1846)………………..Otto Nicolai Violin ...

Robert Parkins’s farewell recital at Duke features repertoire he performed at dedicatory concerts of the Chapel’s Brombaugh, Flentrop, and renovated Aeolian organs-including early Spanish and south German music as well ...

DNME: System, Solace, Silence. Admission is free – No need to purchase tickets to attend.

Join us in the Biddle Music Building Fountain area as we honor our talented seniors! Enjoy an evening of instrumental and vocal performances that showcase their artistic journeys. Admission is ...

Duo Cortona (Rachel Calloway Streisfeld and Ari Streisfeld) will be presenting an evening of music that includes works of Bacewiz, Liberatore, and Waggoner Duo Cortona is a contemporary music ensemble ...

The Duke Chapel Choir and the Duke Chorale join forces with Mallarmé Music and the Amalgam Brass for an afternoon of music celebrating American poets and composers, past and present. ...

Duke Jazz Ensemble featuring Jeff Hamilton, Drums. Tickets are required and can be purchased at tickets.duke.edu.

The Duke University Wind Symphony presents the 50th annual Viennese Ball! Join us for an evening of live Austrian Waltz and Polka music with dance workshops for all skill levels. ...

Screening of the film “Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn”, a feature documentary film from the English director Sheila Hayman, a descendant of the composer/pianist Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847). Released from Mercury ...

The Music Graduate Student Association and the Duke Music Composition PhD Student Group present a night of world premieres written for the visiting ensemble Orange Road String Quartet. This concert ...

Duke Chorale sings songs about freedom in support of local refugees. Donations are accepted at the door for Church World Service – Durham. Admission is free – No need to ...

Duke Symphony Orchestra: “Final Statements”. Admission is free – No need to purchase tickets to attend.

One-hour concert featuring works by Maximiliano Amici and Beethoven. Admission is free – No need to purchase tickets to attend.

Jennifer Curtis with Ieva Jokubaviciute and Sophie Shao. Admission is free – No need to purchase tickets to attend.

Guest artist Branford Marsalis provides musical leadership for this Jazz Vespers. Over the past ten years, Jazz Vespers has become a beloved tradition at Duke Chapel. Sing, rest, pray, and ...

Join us as the Triangle Wind Ensemble and the Duke Wind Symphony share the stage for Symphonic Synergy. This concert will showcase each ensemble individually, as well as the power ...

Duke faculty members R. Larry Todd and Rachel Niketopoulos will join natural horn players Christopher Caudill and Monet Jowers for a concert of 19th-century chamber music performed on period instruments, ...

Duke University String School Orchestra Concert Featuring Concerto Competition Winners

Works for piano by Samuel Adams, Frederic Chopin, Aaron Copland, Stephen Jaffe , and Franz Schubert.

Join us for an afternoon of violin and cello performances by the Duke University String School. Admission is free – No need to purchase tickets to attend.

Ensemble Intercolor is a trailblazing young trio whose wholly original approach to music ensures a vibrant and dynamic program at every concert. Their singular instrumental combination of cimbalom, viola, clarinet, ...

James Kibbie’s program, performed on the Flentrop organ, includes music by Bach, Mozart, Price, Ropek, Sowande, and others. Dr. Kibbie is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where ...

James Kibbie is a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, where his 42-year tenure included service as University Organist and Chair of the Organ Department. Renowned as an authority ...

This performance features the superlative pianist Lisa Emenheiser, who introduced “Tableaux” at the Hirshhorn Museum in February 2023, and Duke faculty members Eric Pritchard and Gabriel Richard’s violin offerings of ...

The Ciompi Quartet has a long and fruitful relationship with Duke’s faculty in composition, and with the students in its Ph.D. program. The quartet has commissioned and premiered many works ...

Duke Jazz Ensemble featuring José James, Vocalist

Cello Faculty Recital – Schubert, Janacek and 3 works from 5 decades by American master John Harbison.

Blue Mountain Forecast presents a program of interesting textures and colorful works by current composers. The ensemble features Duke Faculty members Carla Copeland-Burns (flute), Susan Fancher (saxophone) pianist Inara Zandmane ...

Join us for a concert featuring our Jazz area students as they showcase their creativity and improvisational skills, playing jazz standards and original tunes.

Gabriel Richard: “Tribute to Maurice Ravel”

Gabriel Richard presents “Tribute to Maurice Ravel.” Joseph Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism ...

Of Peruvian heritage and raised in France, Jesús Castro-Balbi graduated from the Conservatoire de Lyon, Indiana University Bloomington, the Yale School of Music, and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts ...

Recital by soprano Heather Engebretson

New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang (trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice) premieres six new pieces written for them by Duke graduate student composers; Erich Barganier, Tyler ...

A captivating afternoon of piano music featuring guest artist Michael S. Brown and Ieva Jokubaviciute in a shared piano recital. Experience a delightful mix of four-hand pieces by Schubert and ...

Join us for a moving and uplifting concert that explores climate change – and what we can do about it – through music. As health professionals and community members, we’ve ...

Before the Durham Medical Orchestra’s performance at 3:00 (Orchestrating Change: A Concert for Climate Action), join us for a panel discussion exploring the intersection of climate change, health, and the ...

Advanced Chamber Music students perform a full recital representing the semester’s intense study of 6-10 contrasting works from the last 250 years.

For over 34 years, Walter has been bringing joy to people across the globe, from New York to China and everywhere in between. His artistry began to impress critics and ...

Visiting artists Jennifer Curtis (violin), Mimi Solomon (piano), Susan Fancher (saxophone), and Karl Larson (harpsichord). Perich: “Dual Synthesis” for harpsichord and 1-bit electronics; Auburn Lee: “Self-Similar Counting Pattern”; Erich Barganier: ...

The Duke Symphony Orchestra, directed by Harry Davidson, numbers some 80-100 players and draws its membership almost entirely from the student body. The Duke Symphony Orchestra, open to all members ...

Chamber Music at Duke performs works from the Baroque to the 20th century written for a broad array of instrumentations including string quartets, piano trios and saxophone quartets. Chamber Music ...

Performances given by the Duke University String School Intermediate String Orchestra, Concert String Orchestra, and Youth Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Featuring Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, with the DUSS Faculty Quartet. Conductors ...

Violin and cello choir ensembles and soloists will perform the pieces they have been working on in their group classes.

The DNME is back, with the recent, the new and the REALLY new! Featuring music of Boulez, Shulamit Ran, Hannah Kendall, Duke Graduate Composers, and Group Improvisations composed on the ...

The Duke Chinese Ensemble, conducted by Jennifer Chang, will present a concert that features a variety of Chinese musical genres, including classical, folk, and orchestral pieces, played on a mix ...

Over the past ten years, Jazz Vespers has become a beloved tradition at Duke Chapel. Sing, rest, pray, and celebrate in these worship services combining the ancient Christian tradition of ...

Stefan Engels’ recital at Duke will include works by J. S. Bach, Robert Schumann, and Karg-Elert on the Flentrop and Aeolian organs. Professor of Organ at Southern Methodist University, Engels ...

In a concert celebrating composer Arnold Schoenberg’s 150th anniversary, the Ciompi Quartet performs a program of works connected by time and place. Mozart’s Vienna produced quartets like his K. 589: ...

In this opening public event of the 2024-25 Keohane Professorship, interdisciplinary artist and scholar Ashon Crawley will present on the relation of dirt and soil to the making of Black life, and how degrading the earth is part of the attempt to unmake Black possibility.

Since its founding in 1965 by the renowned Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi, the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University has delighted audiences and impressed critics around the world. All its members ...

Since its founding in 1965 by the renowned Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi, the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University has delighted audiences and impressed critics around the world. All its members ...

Since its founding in 1965 by the renowned Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi, the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University has delighted audiences and impressed critics around the world. All its members ...

Join us for a free, interactive, family-oriented classical concert full of fun, playful music in the Nasher Museum’s Sculpture Garden. The music will inspire kids of all ages to celebrate ...

The Duke Symphony Orchestra, directed by Harry Davidson, numbers some 80-100 players and draws its membership almost entirely from the student body. The Duke Symphony Orchestra, open to all members ...

The Duke Music Composition Ph.D. program presents an evening of graduate student composers’ music at the Ark (next to Duke Coffeehouse). Performances will include live electronics, dance, video projection, voice, ...

Alcee Chris III open this season’s organ recital series on the Aeolian organ with music by J. S. Bach, Elgar, Litaize, and Rachmaninoff. Dr. Chriss is currently Assistant Organist at ...

The Wind Symphony returns and starts the semester euphorically with works by Reed, Strauss, Grainger, Jolly, Bruckner, Cuong, and Maslanka The Duke University Wind Symphony, directed by Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, is ...

Join the Duke Music Department for a grand celebration of our iconic Biddle Music Building with a gala concert on September 21, 2024, at 7:00 PM, Free Admission. This special ...

W.A. Mozart – violin sonata no. 21 in e minor, k. 304 Kaija Saariaho – Folia Intermission Franz Schubert – “Arpeggione” sonata d. 821 Zachary Hobin is a double bassist ...

Presented by Eric Pritchard, violin Throughout human history, artists and composers have sought to lift the veil of the subconscious by giving voice to the dreamworld in their work. This ...

Presented by Jonathan Bagg, viola Schubert’s joyous “Trout” Quintet meets the dark, mystical world of Osvaldo Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, a Klezmer-inspired classic of our time ...

Presented by Caroline Stinson, cello This concert of old, new, and popular French music, with strings, percussion, and song, brings us together around the French Fête des voisins – a ...