Jason Moran is one of modern music’s most vital forces. Through a series of ambitious projects meant to bring jazz to a wider audience — such as the 2007 Duke ...

The acclaimed Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of southern India is one of the world’s great dance companies. Living communally in a women’s village devoted to dance — the better to meld ...

Will Oldham is not only a writer of great songs; he is a student of them. “When I heard the other kids around the campfire singing ‘Casey Jones,’ ‘Cortez the ...

For its first outing with new cellist Caroline Stinson, the Ciompi Quartet maintains its annual tradition of beginning each new season with a string quartet from Haydn, the architect of ...

Branford Marsalis is jazz royalty. Raised in the rich culture of New Orleans by a family of professional musicians, Marsalis got his start touring with Art Blakey’s legendary Jazz Messengers. ...

$10 Duke student tickets are available for purchase online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at the Duke University Box Office, Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. ...

In little more than a decade, New York’s JACK Quartet has become one of the world’s most important catalysts for and purveyors of new music. Dubbed “master musicians” by The ...

Brian Harnetty mines Appalachia’s past with a singular aim: to salvage stories from one of the country’s most neglected regions and make them resonate. Raised by descendants of Welsh immigrants ...

$10 Duke student tickets are available for purchase online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at the Duke University Box Office, Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. ...

While struggling as an eager young alto saxophonist in New York during the mid-1980s, Steve Coleman stumbled upon an idea that seemed obvious but has proven revolutionary: Music should reflect ...

The Camille A. Brown Trilogy Package, which provides best available reserved seats in Reynolds Industries Theater to Camille A. Brown & Dancers’ trilogy, including presentations of ink, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, and Mr. TOL ...

The Camille A. Brown Trilogy Package, which provides best available reserved seats in Reynolds Industries Theater to Camille A. Brown & Dancers’ trilogy, including presentations of ink, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, and Mr. TOL ...

The Camille A. Brown Trilogy Package, which provides best available reserved seats in Reynolds Industries Theater to Camille A. Brown & Dancers’ trilogy, including presentations of ink, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, and Mr. TOL ...

During the last decade, there has been no jazz quintet more impressive than the one that trumpet and cornet master Ron Miles assembled to make 2017’s poignant I Am a ...

In less than a decade, the bold and talented Chicago collective Manual Cinema has become a theatrical powerhouse with its mesmerizing shadow-puppet spectacles. Blending techniques from animation and film and ...

Nearly forty years passed before the Tony Award-winning playwright and singer Stew realized that James Baldwin had changed his life. As a Los Angeles teenager, Stew loved Baldwin’s Go Tell ...

$10 Duke student tickets are available for purchase online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at the Duke University Box Office, Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. ...

Hailed as “one of the great flamenco dancers of this new century” by The New York Times, Farruquito has expanded the reach and reputation of the genre through dazzling performances ...

$10 Duke student tickets are available for purchase online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at the Duke University Box Office, Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. ...

In less than a decade, the bold and talented Chicago collective Manual Cinema has become a theatrical powerhouse with mesmerizing shadow-puppet spectacles. Blending techniques from animation and film and performing ...

The ‘Black Atlantic’ Package, which provides access to all ‘Black Atlantic’ shows at Motorco and best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium, including performances by Derek Gripper, Fatoumata Diawara, Noura Mint ...

The ‘Black Atlantic’ Package, which provides access to all ‘Black Atlantic’ shows at Motorco and best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium, including performances by Derek Gripper, Fatoumata Diawara, Noura Mint ...

The ‘Black Atlantic’ Package, which provides access to all ‘Black Atlantic’ shows at Motorco and best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium, including performances by Derek Gripper, Fatoumata Diawara, Noura Mint ...

The ‘Black Atlantic’ Package, which provides access to all ‘Black Atlantic’ shows at Motorco and best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium, including performances by Derek Gripper, Fatoumata Diawara, Noura Mint ...

The ‘Black Atlantic’ Package, which provides access to all ‘Black Atlantic’ shows at Motorco and best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium, including performances by Derek Gripper, Fatoumata Diawara, Noura Mint ...

The ‘Black Atlantic’ Package, which provides access to all ‘Black Atlantic’ shows at Motorco and best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium, including performances by Derek Gripper, Fatoumata Diawara, Noura Mint ...

Garage rock delivered in Farsi? That’s what Brooklyn band Habibi plays on Cardamom Garden, its delightful 2018 album. At the start of its finale, singer Rahill Jamalifard launches into a ...

$10 Duke student tickets are available for purchase online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at the Duke University Box Office, Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. ...

$10 Duke student tickets are available for purchase online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at the Duke University Box Office, Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. ...

The Ciompi Quartet opens this concert with Arvo Pärt’s landmark Fratres, an engrossing 1977 piece that seesaws between hyperactive flurries and halcyon stretches. They continue with Elliott Carter’s Two Fragments ...

In Durham, two of the world’s most enterprising and important new-music ensembles convene for a rare double-bill. The JACK Quartet, now at the end of a two-year Duke Performances residency, ...

Acclaimed pianist Fred Hersch was touring France in the mid-1990s when he experienced an undeniable urge: he needed to read Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman’s visionary expression of open-hearted love ...

Jason Moran is one of modern music’s most vital forces. Through a series of ambitious projects meant to bring jazz to a wider audience — such as the 2007 Duke ...

In February 2018, Duke Performances unveiled an audacious three-year collaboration with American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the world’s leading classical ballet companies. Through its expansive programming, international engagements, and ...

November 27, 2018: Duke Performances regrets to announce that Tal National’s spring North American tour, including their engagement at Duke Performances scheduled for Friday, March 29, 2019 during the Black ...

$10 Duke student tickets are available for purchase online, via phone at 919-684-4444, and in person at the Duke University Box Office, Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. ...

Amir Mohamed el Khalifa, or the incisive rapper and elegant producer Oddisee, grew up in two worlds. The son of an African-American mother and a Sudanese father, he spent his ...

Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre are pleased to announce the reschedule of their co-presentation of Charles Lloyd & The Marvels feat. Lucinda Williams to MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2019 at ...

Given the winter weather expected this Sunday, December 9, Duke Performances is rescheduling Kate McGarry’s Sunday sets for TUESDAY evening, December 11, at Durham Fruit & Produce. The sets will ...

The ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ Package, which provides access to all 14 ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ sets at Durham Fruit & Produce, including performances by Nnenna Freelon, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Nellie ...

The ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ Package, which provides access to all 14 ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ sets at Durham Fruit & Produce, including performances by Nnenna Freelon, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Nellie ...

The ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ Package, which provides access to all 14 ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ sets at Durham Fruit & Produce, including performances by Nnenna Freelon, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Nellie ...

The ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ Package, which provides access to all 14 ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ sets at Durham Fruit & Produce, including performances by Nnenna Freelon, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Nellie ...

The ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ Package, which provides access to all 14 ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ sets at Durham Fruit & Produce, including performances by Nnenna Freelon, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Nellie ...

The ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ Package, which provides access to all 14 ‘In the Jazz Tradition’ sets at Durham Fruit & Produce, including performances by Nnenna Freelon, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Nellie ...

Will Oldham is one of modern music’s most focused and astute singers. The crevices and knots, peaks and valleys of his voice are deeply suggestive, giving listeners clues that the ...

For twenty-five years, Will Oldham has written rangy rock tunes, hushed folk confessionals, charming country waltzes, and stormy piano ballads, making use of specific guises to suit each tune. He’s ...

The New York Times recently made the astonishing assertion that countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo “exists to transform opera.” In a few short years, Costanzo — born in Durham to two ...

$10 Duke student tickets are available for purchase via phone at 919-560-3030, and in person at the Carolina Theatre box office during business hours, 11 AM to 6 PM. ### ...

From his complicated backstory to his compelling rhymes, Brother Ali is a rapper without a rival. Albino and legally blind, he struggled to find peers in the midwestern states where ...

Amir ElSaffar is one of the United States’ most inventive musicians. With his Two Rivers Ensemble, he plays trumpet, layering Middle Eastern melodies with jazz improvisation in search of tarab, ...

The Elias String Quartet seems to live inside the pieces it plays. The ensemble conveys both emotional and structural sophistication with astounding clarity. Formed at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of ...

Hailed as “ardently angelic” (Los Angeles Times), “superb” (The New Yorker), and “something of a miracle” (The Philadelphia Enquirer), The Crossing is a GRAMMY-winning Philadelphia chamber choir dedicated to vivid ...

Praised for “a rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts” by NPR, and for “beautifully blended voices of individual distinction” (The Independent), New ...

Founded in the dark days of 1940, at the beginning of the country’s occupation by the Soviet Union, the Latvian Radio Choir takes an unconventional approach to choral music, foregrounding ...

Founded in 1932, the Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir is the oldest and largest children’s concert choir in the Czech Republic. This award-winning ensemble has been a staple of Czech radio ...

Duke Performances’ presentation of pianist Piotr Anderszewski, scheduled for Saturday, April 6 at 8 PM in Baldwin Auditorium, has been CANCELLED due to illness. The recital will not be rescheduled ...

Beatrice Rana played her first scales when she was only six months old, seated on her mother’s lap at the piano in a tiny Italian town. The daughter of two ...

Called “without question the most astounding pianist of our age” by The Times of London, the twenty-seven-year-old Daniil Trifonov has become the instrument’s new standard-bearer. After he won first prize ...

In the two decades since he claimed Juilliard’s venerable Piano Recital Debut Award, Durham native Jeremy Denk has become one of his generation’s most in-demand instrumentalists and, at The New ...

Nearly three decades have passed since Marc-André Hamelin emerged as the new titan of solo piano.

Seven GRAMMY Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, top honors at the inaugural Arthur Rubinstein Competition, the Echo Klassik Award, Yale’s Sanford Medal for distinguished musicianship: Emanuel Ax has amassed a ...

Few other string quartets delight with the verve and joy of Quatuor Ébène. Elegant, playful, and enthusiastic, its performances are not burdened by reverence for the form’s imposing history, but ...

During the last three decades, the Artemis Quartet has set new standards of flexibility for the modern string quartet. The ensemble’s catalogue includes Beethoven, Ligeti, Schoenberg, and Brahms. Capable of ...

Steven Isserlis plays with great passion. His rich and muscular sound, combined with interpretive sensitivity, has made him one of world’s preeminent cellists. Pianist and conductor Robert Levin has held ...

The Schumann Quartet exudes effortless grace. Born into a family of musicians, the three Schumann brothers have played together since childhood, ultimately recruiting one of Europe’s brightest young violists to ...

The Calidore String Quartet is one of the premier chamber ensembles in a generation of exciting new chamber talent. Since forming in Los Angeles, the spirited Calidore — a portmanteau ...

Fast friends since childhood, three of the four members of the Danish String Quartet have been playing together since the age of fifteen, and they continue to bring a youthful ...

Praised for its precise and energetic interpretations of larger-scale chamber works, the sound from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble is so brilliant, it nearly glows. ...

East Los Angeles band, Las Cafeteras, play Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, July 25.

Appalachian balladeers Anna & Elizabeth play Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, July 18.

Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba make the hometown release for their new album, 'Routes', at Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, July 11.

Roots-rock luminaries The Sadies play Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, June 27.

Galax, Virginia native singer/songwriter Dori Freeman kicks-off Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, June 13.

Ohio-reared, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter Lydia Loveless plays Duke Performances Music in the Gardens on Wednesday, June 20.

Peter Phillips, celebrated conductor and founder of The Tallis Scholars, coaches the singers of the Duke University Chorale, directed by Rodney Wynkoop, in a choral music master class in Bone ...

Join acclaimed choreographer and Mark Morris alum John Heginbotham (Dance Heginbotham) for a dance class designed to benefit those with Parkinson’s disease. The class is offered in collaboration with American ...

SOLD OUT! Join Maira Kalman and John Heginbotham for an hour of conversation modeled on Maira’s favorite morning ritual: the reading of obituaries over coffee. Coffee and cake provided by ...

In this lunchtime discussion — and official kickoff to Duke Performances’ weeklong Black Atlantic festival — noted musicologists Ned Sublette (Afropop Worldwide) and Michael Veal (Yale) discuss the impact of ...

Durham-based dance instructor Jose Paredes will lead a Bachata dance class, beginning at 7 PM, prior to Joan Soriano’s performance at Motorco Music Hall on Monday, March 26. This event ...

Ned Sublette (Afropop Worldwide) and Laurent Dubois (Duke) co-moderate this discussion on the history of musical and cultural exchange between the two nations of Hispaniola, featuring Black Atlantic festival artists ...

Join celebrated Venezuelan singer Betsayda Machado and her drum-and-vocal ensemble La Parranda El Clavo for an intimate demonstration and conversation about the traditions that have shaped their music. The event ...

Acclaimed classical pianist Shai Wosner leads a piano master class in Baldwin Auditorium with Duke student musicians. Friday, February 23, 5 PM Baldwin Auditorium, Duke East Campus Free and open ...

The members of JACK Quartet lead their second chamber music master class of the 2017/2018 season, coaching Duke student musicians on works by Dvořák and Smetana. Tuesday, February 13, 5 PM ...

Percussionist Rami El-Aasser and other members of Alsarah and The Nubatones join Duke instructor Bradley Simmons and Duke students for a percussion workshop. Free and open to the public. Tuesday, ...

In this evening talk at Beyù Caffè in downtown Durham, Sudanese-born singer Alsarah discusses her artistic process and journey, which began as a double refugee — first from conflict in ...

In this wide-ranging talk at Beyù Caffè in downtown Durham, legendary Los Angeles-based hip-hop artist Murs discusses his career, influences, and record-setting 26-hour rap that landed him in the Guinness ...