Multi-instrumentalist and singer Dom Flemons is a co-founder of the GRAMMY-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Flemons has recorded three albums under his own name with Music Maker Relief Foundation; the latest, ...

The exceptional jazz vocalist Kurt Elling comes to Baldwin Auditorium on Valentine’s weekend with selections from his forthcoming album Passion World; commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center, this cosmopolitan project ...

Virtuoso pianist Vladimir Feltsman was banned from performing in his native Russia for eight years after he tried defecting in 1979, but he has made up for this long period ...

Durham-based Americana music savant Phil Cook is poised to launch a fruitful solo career after more than a decade playing with bands DeYarmond Edison, Megafaun, and the Shouting Matches — during ...

**$10 Duke student tickets available in person at the Duke University Box Office on the top level of the Bryan Center University Center, by phone at 919-684-4444, and online by clicking here. Box ...

Founded ten years ago, the young Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis have quickly earned a reputation among choral music aficionados for their fervent dedication to renaissance and baroque repertoire, their ...

Durham-based Americana music savant Phil Cook is poised to launch a fruitful solo career after more than a decade playing with bands DeYarmond Edison, Megafaun, and the Shouting Matches — during ...

**$10 Duke student tickets available in person at the Duke University Box Office on the top level of the Bryan Center University Center, by phone at 919-684-4444, and online by clicking here. ...

**Vusi Mahlasela replaces the previously scheduled concert with Rokia Traoré.** Celebrated South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela is known as “The Voice,” both for his extraordinary range as a singer, and for ...

Durham-based Americana music savant Phil Cook is poised to launch a fruitful solo career after more than a decade playing with bands DeYarmond Edison, Megafaun, and the Shouting Matches — during ...

As part of Duke’s First Big Weekend, Duke Performances and Duke Gardens are pleased to make a Duke student-only presentation of Lost in the Trees, Bombadil, and Diadem — a ...

I.C.E. International Contemporary Ensemble — “bracing, illuminating, reassuring” (Financial Times) — perform The Whisper Opera, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang’s compelling new work of lyric theater, for an audience of just ...

**CONCERT ACCESS FOR DUKE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS ONLY** As part of Duke’s First-Year Orientation, Duke Performances and Duke Gardens are pleased to present an NC hip-hop triple bill for Duke first-year students: Phonte, Rapsody, ...

Vocal quartet New York Polyphony perform their holiday program, Sing Thee Nowell, a reverent meditation on the Christmas season that recently earned the group its second GRAMMY nomination. Praised for ...

**Tickets for ALL performances of William Tyler’s Corduroy Roads are sold out. There will be a waiting list available at the door an hour prior to the start of each performance.** Duke Performances ...

In the early 70s, Ethiopia experienced a golden age of popular music with the rise of “Ethio-jazz” — a mesmerizing blend of zigzagging modal melodies and diminished harmonies played against ...

Surupa Sen (choreographer/dancer) and Bijayini Satpathy (dancer), the magnificent duo from South India’s Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, perform a special program of solos and duets inspired by the epic Indian poem ...

The commanding GRAMMY-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman displays his gifts on the world’s biggest stages as a first-call concerto player with such illustrious conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, and Esa-Pekka ...

Portuguese singer-songwriter Lula Pena’s longing lyrics and wandering guitar lines descend from the fado tradition, which originated two hundred years ago in Lisbon and has since provided fertile ground for ...

Pablo Ziegler was the pianist for Astor Piazzolla, the world’s foremost composer of tango music, for over a decade. Since that auspicious mentorship, Ziegler has further enriched Piazzolla’s nuevo tango, infusing fresh melodic structures, ...

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 ...

A master of the violin in the Carnatic classical music tradition, L. Subramaniam has spent a lifetime exploring the versatility of his instrument. His work as a prolific composer, performer, ...

**$10 Duke student tickets available at the Duke University Box Office on the top level of the Bryan Center on Duke’s West Campus. Box Office hours are 11 AM to 6 PM, ...

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green collaborates with new music sextet yMusic on The Measure of All Things, a film/music project loosely inspired by The Guinness Book of World Records. ...

In 1962, at the age of sixteen, Bettye LaVette was invited to record her first single at Johnnie Mae Matthews’ legendary Detroit studio. “My Man, He’s a Loving Man” hit ...

English pianist Paul Lewis, a protégé of Alfred Brendel, has devoted much of his career to the music of Beethoven. His award-winning recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas on Harmonia Mundi ...

Greensboro musician Laurelyn Dossett, co-founded the roots country outfit Polecat Creek, and she’s recently been on the road as part of Rhiannon Giddens’ touring band. Laurelyn has collaborated with the ...

North Carolinian Rhiannon Giddens first came to Duke Performances in 2007 with the GRAMMY-winning string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops at Music in the Gardens. In the intervening years, she ...

When Pakistani qawwali superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died in 1997, his family’s six-century musical tradition did not end. The legacy of qawwali — a devotional genre extolling mystical love and worship of God — was ...

Fifty years into her career, bluegrass icon and longtime Durham resident Alice Gerrard’s voice has only become more clear and haunting. “Plaintive, yet as dignified as a rugged old oak, ...

**Health issues will prevent Ms. Traoré from playing her April 1 concert at Duke Performances. The South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela has made arrangements to fill in for Ms. Traoré on this date. Your ...

Note: John Dee Holeman, previously scheduled to perform, will miss this concert for medical reasons. A full recovery is anticipated. Piedmont Blues guitarist Lightnin’ Wells will fill in for Holeman. More info ...

In this new collaboration, celebrated choreographer Ronald K. Brown and acclaimed pianist Jason Moran bring together their respective ensembles — Brown’s Evidence Dance Company and Moran’s Bandwagon jazz trio — ...

Kaira Ba’s music is inspired both by West African griot culture and the tradition of dance bands that emerged from that part of the world in 1970s (see: The Rail ...

**Preferred seating is sold out for Stile Antico in Duke Chapel; there is, however, still general admission seating available for this concert.** Stile Antico, a superb twelve-voice British chamber choir, return to ...

Music Maker Relief Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Hillsborough, NC, dedicated to helping the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of the blues gain recognition and meet their day-to-day ...

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 ...

Renegade traditionalists Mipso are one of the leading bands among the next generation of young North Carolina musicians drawn to the siren sound of southern roots and bluegrass music. Featuring ...

Founded four decades ago in Hungary, the Takács Quartet bring drama, humor, and warmth to their definitive interpretations of the string quartet repertoire. Renowned as a “benchmark ensemble among today’s ...

Music Maker Relief Foundation is a non-profit based in Hillsborough, NC, dedicated to helping the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of the blues gain recognition and meet their day-to-day needs. ...

For more than four decades, the legendary multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Braxton has been a sonic innovator. With his Diamond Curtain Wall Quintet, the 1994 MacArthur Fellow and 2014 NEA Jazz ...

**In order to accomodate viewing of the Final Four basketball game between Duke & Michigan St., Cassandra Wilson’s concert at the Carolina will now begin at 8:30 PM.** **$10 Duke student ...

**Please note that the original time of this performance has changed from 7 PM to 3 PM in order to accomodate the start of the Super Bowl.** Jordi Savall, one ...

Ari Picker is best known as the front man for the acclaimed orchestral indie rock band Lost in the Trees, but the Chapel Hill native also distinguished himself studying composition ...

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 ...

The founding members of the Artemis Quartet developed their skills for a full ten years before offering their first concert. This dedication to excellence has not wavered, and their playing ...

Local favorites Nicholas Kitchen, viola, and Yeesun Kim, cello, both of the Borromeo String Quartet, join the Ciompi for an evening of sextets. The concert begins with the premiere of ...

The conversation between Anthony Braxton & Nathaniel Mackey has been cancelled. Mr. Braxton is delayed getting to Durham due to travel delays caused by the snow. We do, however, fully ...

The Ciompi’s season finale opens with Schubert’s popular “Quartettsatz” in C Minor, D. 703. The quartet is then joined by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, a Durham native who performs regularly ...

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 — ...

Virtuosic dancers from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro fuse hip-hop, samba, capoeira, and contemporary dance in the boldly imaginative choreography of Sonia Destri Lie’s Companhia Urbana de Dança, one ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In Conversation: Jenny Scheinman & Finn Taylor with Tom Rankin Duke professor and director of Duke’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts, Tom Rankin, will talk with composer, violinist, and ...

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 ...

**$10 Duke student tickets available in person at the Duke University Box Office on the top level of the Bryan Center University Center, by phone at 919-684-4444, and online by clicking here. Box ...

A Mali native, Vieux Farka Touré is the son of the late guitar luminary Ali Farka Touré, and he carries on the musical legacy he absorbed at his father’s feet. ...

— 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 ...

Formed at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music and nurtured in Cologne, Germany, the Elias String Quartet has attracted notice for playing with “a beautiful sound, burnished yet translucent” (Sunday ...

In the Ciompi Quartet’s venerable tradition of opening each season with a work by Haydn, this program begins with the vivacious String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 50, no. 1, ...

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 ...

A vital young New York ensemble, the Horszowski Trio was founded in 2011, whereupon the New Yorker declared it “destined for great things.” Named for legendary teacher Mieczysław Horszowski, under ...

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 ...

The Bad Plus perform Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction with Tim Berne, Ron Miles & Sam Newsome Duke Performances has once again engaged the forward-leaning jazz trio The Bad Plus — Reid ...

I.C.E. International Contemporary Ensemble — described as “extraordinary” by The New York Times — follow their performances of The Whisper Opera with a concert of chamber music in the round at the ...

Note: Now Now Oh Now will begin promptly at the designated showtimes. Latecomers will not be admitted, and no refunds or exchanges will be issued. A waiting list for each performance will ...

Romanian violinist Corina Belcea founded her quartet while still a student at the Royal College of Music in London. Twenty years on, the Belcea still play like a “young quartet, ...

I Fagiolini, winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award, are a British vocal ensemble of six singers specializing in dynamic, historically informed performances of renaissance vocal music. Far from ...

Renowned for their ethereal vocal blend and virtuosic ensemble singing, Anonymous 4 have been touring and recording for nearly thirty years. Long celebrated for their performances of medieval music — as well ...

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 ...

JD Souther and Carrie Rodriguez — a celebrated pair of Texas-born singer-songwriters — share a double-bill at Baldwin Auditorium. A principal architect of the Laurel Canyon sound, the Amarillo-reared Souther produced ...

A.C.M.E. American Contemporary Music Ensemble, “contemporary music dynamos” (NPR), perform a program of chamber music by Caroline Shaw, 2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music. A composer, vocalist, violinist, ...

“Universally admired as one of the most adventurous pianists to arrive on the jazz scene in years” (Los Angeles Times), Brad Mehldau has spent the last two decades extending and ...

Duke Performances has commissioned Jenny Scheinman, an acclaimed composer, singer, and violinist, to make an original live score set to 70-year-old archival footage taken by the late North Carolina filmmaker H. ...

***Health issues will prevent Ms. Russell from playing her April 10 concert at Duke Performances. The presentation has been cancelled and Duke Performances is not planning to reschedule the engagement. Ticket holders for ...

Jazz titan Branford Marsalis is a GRAMMY winning saxophonist, composer, and bandleader; a record label owner responsible for some of the most electrifying jazz of the last decade; and the ...

Durham-born pianist Jeremy Denk, a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Prize, has steadily built a reputation as a refined and compelling artist with a broad ...

**$10 Duke student tickets available in person at the Duke University Box Office on the top level of the Bryan Center University Center, by phone at 919-684-4444, and online by clicking here. Box ...

The Calefax Reed Quintet, a unique reed ensemble from Amsterdam, has distinguished itself with its imaginative transcriptions that reach back to the Middle Ages, its “spectacular sound that draws in ...

The Jerusalem Quartet, enthusiastically received at Duke Performances in 2012, return to Durham with their unique combination of confident energy and exquisite sensitivity. The New York Times hailed the Jerusalem for ...

“A superlative vocal sextet that has retained immaculate blend, perfect tuning, and crystal diction” (London Times), The King’s Singers performs the widest repertoire in the musical world: more than two ...

Why do collaborators from Meredith Monk to Laurie Anderson to John Hollenbeck flock to work with Theo Bleckmann? Because Bleckmann offers a voice “so colossal, yet so meticulous, he can ...

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 ...

Not many orchestras feature eight musicians all playing the same instrument. But the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain plays a range of music few orchestras dare to consider: from Tchaikovsky ...

Lambchop began as a band at once defying and embracing the musical legacy of its hometown of Nashville, TN and has evolved into an accomplished ensemble, adding palpable depth and ...

Urban Bush Women is celebrating 30 years as an unstoppable force in American dance. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s troupe started out with “raw power and conviction” (Village Voice), and it ...

The Emerson String Quartet towers over American chamber music: Newsday calls them “the one indispensible quartet.” Their return to Durham this season brings with it a new beginning; for the ...

French pianist Lise de la Salle “has wowed the world with her prodigious gifts, superlative technique, and a passionate, mature musicianship found in only the rarest of prodigies” (LA Weekly). ...

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 ...

Cellist David Finckel, violinist Philip Setzer, and pianist Wu Han make as fine a piano trio as the world knows. Given their résumés, this is no surprise: Finckel spent more ...

The Los Angeles Times praised French Canadian pianist Louis Lortie for “his bravura, amazing display of color, and beautiful way with a melodic line,” calling “each an awesome aspect of ...

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 ...

The brilliant young pianist Gerald Clayton was schooled in hard-swinging, melodic jazz by his father, John Clayton, uncle Jeff Clayton, and his mentors Billy Childs and Kenny Barron. More recently, ...

Please Note: All performances of Love’s Infrastructure — 8:15 pm on Friday, January 24; 3:15 pm on Saturday, January 25; 8:15 pm on Saturday, January 25 & 3:15 pm on Sunday, January 26 ...

A classical tabla player of the highest order, Zakir Hussain’s scintillating performances have established him as a national treasure in India. He inherited this skill from a remarkable musical lineage: ...

Gregory Porter burst onto the scene five years ago when Wynton Marsalis selected the then-unknown singer to perform a residency with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Since then, Porter’s ...

Brazilian-born jazz vocalist Luciana Souza “sounds like Astrud Gilberto channeling Nina Simone,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. That combination of luminous voice and arresting presence won her a Grammy Award ...

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 ...

Brooklyn-based Gregory Porter compares sharing music with audiences to sharing food with friends: both endeavors are communal, joyous, and fortifying. Each of his three studio albums, filled with original material, ...

Trigger Alert: Contains depictions and discussion of sexual violence. OBIE Award-winning director Christopher McElroen and Drama Desk Award-winning actor T. Ryder Smith team up to create Measure Back, an immersive ...

The sacred steel tradition was born of the ecstatic meeting of African-American gospel music and amplified steel guitar in the House of God Church. The electrifying Campbell Brothers are the ...

Catchy and fun, Hammer No More the Fingers’ music grows more interesting and intricate after each listen. Recorded in 2007, Hammer No More the Fingers’ self-titled EP catapulted the band into ...

Durham is becoming a magnet for great musicians from all over, and Wisconsin native Nick Sanborn is one of the busiest of those transplants. It seems like Sanborn plays with ...

The Globe and Mail calls the Hilliard Ensemble “without a doubt one of the finest vocal ensembles in the world.” Early music specialists, the Hilliard’s four exquisite male voices will ...

The intricacy of classical guitar and the fire of flamenco might seem worlds apart. But the masters of these two great guitar traditions, Eliot Fisk and Paco Peña, come together ...

Please Note: For sold out shows, Manbites Dog will start an in-person waiting list the night of the show, when they open the box office (7:00 pm). Strictly in-person, no advance sign-up. ...

“The world’s most exciting string quartet?” asked the Times of London. Their vote was for the Pavel Haas Quartet, a Czech-Slovak ensemble fast rising to the top of the chamber ...

The Boston Globe calls Imani Winds “the leading wind quintet in America.” These classical virtuosi make it their mission to expand the repertoire for their ensemble by both composing and arranging ...

A unique dance company, People Get Ready also plays kinetic, irrepressible rock music. Fusing music and dance, they envision a concert as a total artistic experience. Led by the breathtaking ...

Cincinnati duo Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, better known as Over the Rhine, have been making gorgeous records for two decades that sound like “they sprung from another time” (Los Angeles Times). Singer-songwriter ...

The members of Plume Giant describe their sound as “orchestral music in dream-pop clothes.” With backgrounds in baroque opera, music theory, and midwest vernacular, these three musicians play fifteen instruments ...

Tehran native Kayhan Kalhor is a master of Persian musical traditions that stretch back thousands of years. These ancient forms combine classical precision with improvisation, and Kalhor seamlessly interweaves the ...

Singer-songwriter Richard Buckner is an alternative country/roots musician with an alternative rock following. The Guardian (UK) has this to say about Buckner “There are three kinds of American folk artist: those ...

Imagine Roky Erickson backed by the Sun Ra Arkestra, or Wilson Pickett and The Velvet Underground, or picture the love child of Anubis and Kali. King Khan & The Shrines ...

They may be a prime example of an underrated band, but Spider Bags still get their fair share of love. Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles has touted the North Carolina garage-rock group as ...

With immaculate harmonies and a flawless blend, two-time GRAMMY winners and recent Gramophone Hall of Fame inductees The King’s Singers represent the “world standard in male a cappella singing” (The ...

Stephin Merritt releases albums under the band names the Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. Merritt has written and recorded ten Magnetic Fields albums, including ...

A world-class ensemble of Hungarian origin, the Takács Quartet performs the complete string quartets of Hungary’s greatest composer in this two-night concert event. Now based at the University of Colorado, ...

The first Jubilee Singers set out from Nashville’s Fisk University in 1871 to share choral arrangements of the songs of perseverance their parents and grandparents sang to endure the hardships ...