Founded in 1989, the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet is now among the most accomplished ensembles in the world — “original, atmospheric and intense” (Telegraph UK). Having played to great acclaim in ...
“Stunning North Carolina hip-hop group makes grand, thumping tracks from sliced-up soul and shards of R&B. It’s like every song should be released on 45.” –Rolling Stone “Kooley High combines ...
World Premiere • Live Concert Recording Brian Blade is “the most imaginatively supple drummer in jazz” (New York Times). He learned his trade hitting rhythm at Shreveport’s Zion Baptist, where ...
Byron is a tenor sax and clarinet wizard who rolls between high art and low by exploring the real-life swerve at the heart of jazz. Behind the soaring vocals of ...
Exuding “ethereal clarity” (BBC Music), the four women of Anonymous 4 fill Duke Chapel’s gothic alcoves with music from a convent in northern Spain, a crossroads of medieval Europe that ...
Guest artist: Susan Fancher, saxophone Additional Events: First Course Concert No. 1 Thursday, October 15, 2009 • 6 pm Nelson Music Room Composer Max Rami discusses his premiere. Haydn: Quartet ...
Perahia is a titanic figure of modern piano — a three-time Grammy-winner, Knight Commander of the British Empire, and, as of May 2009, holder of an honorary doctorate from Duke. ...
“A country road. A tree. Evening.” –Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot This “dauntless” company (New York Times) drew a crowd of 10,000 to the New Orleans performance of its Godot ...
As a prodigy in the 70s, Lortie was hailed as one of Canada’s “most gifted pianists” (Montreal Star). He’s since crafted an international reputation for audacious program selections and an ...
Costa was the most compelling singer behind Brazil’s Tropicália movement, turning out sexy, swinging pop-art experiments that draped left-wing politics in the folds of a voice like no other. Now ...
On the lush, sloping South Lawn in the corner of Duke Gardens, a free daytime show rings in a season unlike any other. D.C.-based legends Sweet Honey distill two centuries’ ...
In each of these free lunchtime events, 50 minutes of the most essential chamber music in history will be accompanied by a short introduction, giving insight into the shape and ...
The Chamber Arts Society of Durham is pleased to open the season with this year’s installment of the September Prelude — an all-Mozart program, played on period instruments. This special ...
In this special evening of collaborative performance, the world-renowned KLR Trio take the stage with the Miami String Quartet, who play wtih “sweeping authority, fluency, and hushed poignancy” (Miami Herald). ...
In each of these free lunchtime events, 50 minutes of the most essential chamber music in history will be accompanied by a short introduction, giving insight into the shape and ...
Pounding out double-dutch rhythms with bare feet, the Brooklyn-based UBW are “fierce” and “smart” and “shake the theater” when they move (Village Voice). The mostly-black, all-female ensemble comes to Duke ...
Since living in Cameroon and Louisiana, the MacArthur-winning Harris has made heart-rattling songs from the reggae and blues that link Africa to New World slave hubs. His band splits the ...
Escovedo started life as a punk rock axe-handler and has incorporated his earlier selves into a strange new art — “thoughtful” and “meticulous” guitar poetry (New York Times) that snarls. ...
Sun Ra was born in a segregated Birmingham but told the world he came from Saturn. The jazz visionary and prognosticator of future times turned the mixed-up lore of space ...
Additional Events: First Course Concert No. 2 Thursday, November 12, 2009 • 6 pm Duke Gardens Professor John Supko discusses Bartók. Mozart: Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 Bartók: Quartet ...
Virtuosic and inspired, the Takács perform with a rapturous intensity that has made them a fixture on the Chamber Arts Society calendar for more than a decade. “The fact is,” ...
When Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams heard the St. Lawrence String Quartet play, he was so inspired he wrote music for them. At Duke, the group critics call “visceral and ...
Winner of an unprecedented triple award at the Naumburg Competition, Pratt is a musical risk-taker who as a young superstar used big pieces to shift into “a spectacular form of ...
Reeves is the most commanding jazz vocalist on earth: her creamy, shattering contralto has a “skyscraper authority” (New York Times) that was shaped by Sergio Mendes and Harry Belafonte but ...
DakhaBrakha’s singular musical style swings from minimalist drone to raucous wedding dance, and “the effect,” raves The Daily Telegraph, “is wildly exciting.”
The Guardian raved that the pairing of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien “mesmerizes and captivates, achieving rare freshness and vitality in the most familiar repertoire.”
Richard Goode has been universally acclaimed as a master interpreter of the classical piano repertoire for more than fifty years. “One of the greatest American pianists of his or any generation, Goode performs with deceptive ease,” wrote the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Cécile McLorin Salvant, who recently won her first GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, is the shimmering young star of the jazz world.
“Eric Whitacre is a phenomenon in the music world,” wrote the Sydney Morning Herald, calling him “a composer of thoughtful and genuinely original choral works which are not only challenging ...
Anoushka Shankar grew up playing by the side of her father and teacher, the revered sitar player Ravi Shankar. She emerged from his tutelage to become a pioneer on the sitar and “one of the most gifted artists in her generation of Indian classical artists.”
Capping off a weeklong residency at Duke, Kweli presents this two-night stand at Motorco, offering a rare opportunity to hear one of hip-hop’s most original and accomplished voices in the up-close-and-personal club setting.
Hilary Hahn has been one of the best-known violinists in the world for twenty-five years, playing with a style that is "technically immaculate and musically magisterial” (Los Angeles Times).
The faculty sculptor, photographer, and videographer reflects on three decades of teaching and collaborating at Duke
Rising senior Ibanca Anand updates a traditional dance form for an egalitarian age.
The 2016 winner of Duke's premier undergraduate arts award, the Sudler Prize, makes theater of, by, and for the community.
Duke student of environmental studies will join peripatetic artist Torkwase Dyson in community-based project.
Frederic Rzewski’s piece is performed by Imani Winds and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Duke Performances launched its two-year Hip-Hop Initiative with a dance residency by Rennie Harris Puremovement.
The annual poetry salon highlights the full spectrum of Duke poets
Hacker, designer, and activist, Ashley Qian aims to make the tech world more inclusive with a children's book
A class graphic design project reconsiders orthodoxy and goes surprisingly viral.
The Nasher has had an unprecedented influence on the growth of the arts at Duke in the ten years since its establishment.
Some days he’s an artist who teaches and some days he’s a teacher who makes art, but either way, Professor Jeff Storer thinks it is a happy advantage that he can be both—for him and his students.
Joseph Conrad meets the Unabomber under the direction of Jody McAuliffe
Duke's first Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Visual Art is also an experienced, exacting, enthusiastic teacher
At the Venice Biennale, sonic mosaics and flag fusions propose a pluralistic nationalism
When Aaron Greenwald came to Duke in 2007 to be interim director of Duke Performances, concerted efforts to raise the profile of the arts at Duke were in their early ...
Violinist-composer creates songs and fiddle tunes to accompany historic film of Piedmont life in the mid-20th century
Graduate composition students arrange tunes for Folds' upcoming tour with new music ensemble yMusic.
It was a confluence of interests that led Harry “Hap” Esbenshade III to endow a chair in the arts, but it started with a trip. He and his daughter were ...
Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey's writing workshops are open to any undergraduate who's keen to put thought into verse.
Actor and Duke alum Lazar on the Duke theater class that changed his life
This past fall, Jon-Sesrie Goff moved from Philadelphia to Durham to enroll in Duke’s Master of Fine Arts In Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) program. In the ten years since ...
In fall of 2014, The Archive, a long-celebrated undergraduate publication at Duke University, presented its third Salon in Von der Heyden Pavilion on Duke’s West campus. Salon is a celebration ...
The visiting artists combined the nerdy pleasures of interactive gaming with serious science.
Duke in Chicago is a new six-week, two-course summer program for entrepreneurs who love the arts and for artists who want to become entrepreneurial.
Dancing, studying, eating and looking – Duke students are finding many ways to connect with masterpieces by Spanish-born artist Joan Miró at the Nasher Museum. Hundreds of students have visited ...
2014 Sudler Prize winner Wenjia Xu's string quartet traces an arc from hydrogen to DNA.
Baldwin Auditorium reopened this past fall after a two-year, $15-million renovation funded by the Duke Endowment. In the year since, it has proved to be a beautiful place to hear ...
In this role-playing game, students learn about both art and markets
Duke Divinity School premiered St. Luke Passion by Scottish composer James MacMillan in Duke Chapel.
Students in a new Duke course learn entrepreneurship by documenting local entrepreneurs.
Kevin Poole. (T’98) (directed Phil Watson in his Senior Distinction project, “An Iliad.”) Studying and practicing theater at Duke enriched my college experience immensely. A thread within the fabric of ...
Phil Watson is a senior in Theater Studies at Duke who recently presented his senior distinction project, An Iliad, in Shaeffer Theater. It was directed by Kevin Poole, a 1998 ...
Samba and tap dance. Line dance and hip hop. Capoeira and twerking. These are all dance styles that have their origins in the African diaspora and were topics for the ...
Phil Watson, a Trinity senior majoring in theater studies and classical studies, spoke with the Chronicle about his distinction project this spring.
Duke Arabic students cover Sudanese hip-hop and strike a chord
David Gatten, Lecturing Fellow and Artist in Residence in Duke’s Arts of the Moving Image program, is one of the foremost filmmakers of his generation. Since 1996, his work has ...
One reason contemporary art is exciting is that we can sometimes meet an artist and learn the stories behind the work.
A conceptual artist on Duke's faculty talks about his own work and how the arts can make Duke a productive, outward-facing university.
The celebration of 50 Years of Black Students at Duke University culminated on October 4, 2013 with the premier of Billy Childs’ composition “Enlightened Souls,” a piece commissioned by Duke ...
Five Duke dance students spent this past summer in China, introducing into the country a new concept: summer dance camp. Their trip is the latest episode in a remarkable history ...
Luou Zhang, a 2011 Duke graduate in economics, describes how his DukeEngage experience at a middle school in China inspired him to become an experiential-education entrepreneur there.
Hsiao-mei Ku is Professor of the Practice in Duke University’s music department and a violinist in the Ciompi Quartet, Duke’s resident string quartet. She is faculty-in-residence in Pegram residence hall, ...
When James Brown gave his famous advice, “Get up offa that thing and dance ’til you feel better,” he probably never envisioned someone conducting a clinical trial to see if ...
Adam Chodikoff ’93, senior producer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and America’s leading “investigative humorist,” will give the keynote address to kick off DEMAN Weekend, the annual celebration ...
Visiting artist Charlotte Caspers to hold workshops on art reconstruction and painting techniques from the Middle Ages.
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