Our Common Home
A large-scale interactive exhibition that fuses art and technology to inspire reflection on climate action. Audiences are invited to engage in different ways, serving as a metaphor for the impact we have on our planet.
A large-scale interactive exhibition that fuses art and technology to inspire reflection on climate action. Audiences are invited to engage in different ways, serving as a metaphor for the impact we have on our planet.
Best known as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, Renée Elise Goldsberry brings her powerhouse vocals for an unforgettable evening of holiday favorites and Broadway classics.
Duke Arts and Theatre Raleigh present Tony Award–winning performer Sutton Foster, joined by fellow Broadway star Megan McGinnis, for a concert celebrating their shared love of musical theater.
In Sacred Spaces, Alvin Ailey’s Associate Artistic Director Matthew Rushing and Co-creator and Musical Director Du’Bois A’Keen revisit the legacy and spirituality of Revelations.
Trailblazing comedian Mo Amer brings his sharp, deeply-personal stand-up to Durham to help kick off the Duke Arts Presents season. Known for his acclaimed series MO and three stand-up specials on Netflix, Amer has built a global following with comedy that blends personal storytelling, cultural insight, and fearless humor.
Honor the dead at the Día de los Muertos Ofrenda at Duke Chapel. Visitors are invited to contribute photos, objects, or paper-chain links in remembrance of loved ones as part of this sacred Mexican tradition.
In MAJOR, a dance-theater work by Ogemdi Ude, six Black femmes explore the power, memory, and physicality of majorette dance.
Celebrated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 explores the traditions that shape American choral music, from early voices like William Byrd to contemporary composers like Caroline Shaw.
Aaron Pang walks with a cane, and everyone asks “what happened?” He’s tired of answering and so he wrote a solo show to tell it in one go. One accident, two stories: one you’ve heard a thousand times, one you’ve never heard before.
The Ciompi Quartet, Duke University's resident quartet, play a program rooted in U.S. musical traditions, from Samuel Barber’s powerful String Quartet, Op. 11 to Ben Johnston’s inventive quartet built around the hymn Amazing Grace.
Awadagin Pratt is one of the most distinctive pianists in American classical music. His program, America 250, traces the breadth of American voices from Florence Price to contemporary composers.
Documentary filmmaker Sam Green returns to Duke with TREES, an ambitious live cinema performance blending film, live music, and on-stage narration. With music by Caroline Shaw and text by Rebecca Solnit, the work reflects humanity’s relationship with trees.
Parched uses intricate puppetry, visuals, a live band, and sharp humor to explore ideas of revenge, scarcity, greed, and finding hope in a tumultuous ride among the tumbleweeds.
Gabriel Kahane returns to Duke with Every Love Song Is a Protest, a new song cycle affirming shared humanity, inspired by the legacies of Sojourner Truth, Martin Luther King Jr, and more.
Jeremy Denk, one of America’s foremost pianists, pairs Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, and Louise Farrenc with contemporary composers including Tania León and Missy Mazzoli in this wide-ranging recital.
Ciompi Quartet performs Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring in its original chamber scoring for 13 instruments. Joined by musicians from the Durham Fellows Quartet, the program also features works by Stephen Jaffe and Osvaldo Golijov.
British choir Tenebrae is internationally renowned for its extraordinary clarity and emotional depth. A Prayer for Deliverance brings choral works centering on rest, solace, and spiritual reflection.
HopeBoykinDance returns to Duke with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for the premiere of "Troubled No More," a celebration of gospel legend Pastor Shirley Caesar.
Header Photo: Sphinx Virtuosi; Photo by Scott Jackson For more than eighty years, the Chamber Arts Series at Duke University has been a steady presence in Durham’s artistic life, growing ...
When Anthony McGill, principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, joins pianist and composer Conrad Tao, expect a program of striking range where lyricism and virtuosity meet contemporary sensibility.
Inspired by M.C. Escher’s interplay of forms, the Escher Quartet joins pianist David Fung for Mozart, Schumann, and Korngold, music rich in dialogue, shifting between intimacy and concerto-like drama.
Hailing from France, Quatuor Van Kuijk are BBC New Generation Artists and winners of the Wigmore Hall Competition. Their Duke Arts debut features Mozart’s “Dissonance” alongside Bartók and Brahms.
A self-conducted ensemble redefining classical performance, Sphinx Virtuosi blends Stravinsky, Ravel, and Roberto Sierra with new works in a program shaped by the sounds and stories of America.
Two-time GRAMMY winners, Pacifica Quartet pairs Beethoven’s expansive Op. 130 with George Walker and Gabriela Lena Frank, placing bold contemporary voices alongside one of the repertoire’s most searching masterworks.
Three brothers and close collaborator, Veit Hertenstein, bring familial chemistry to Haydn, Ives, and Tchaikovsky, pushing each work to its limits with “extraordinary, frightening brilliance” (Bachtrack).
A standout from Sweden’s chamber scene, Camerata Nordica’s self-conducted octet dives into Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich, performing from within the ensemble for a thrilling sense of collaboration and energy.
Named for the weeping willow, Salix Piano Trio shapes Mozart, Brahms, Higdon, Bridge, and Shostakovich into a vivid arc where elegance and intensity meet “fiercely intelligent playing” (The Washington Post).
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