Events Archive
Voice Master Class with Joseph Amaya
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 5:00pmDr. Joseph Amaya has served on the voice faculty at the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University since 1989. He has also taught at the University of Texas at Arlington, Trinity University, and the University of Georgia. Dr. Amaya has appeared as a guest artist with professional...
Organ Recital Series: Robert Parkins
Sunday, April 2, 2017 - 5:00pmRobert Parkins is the University Organist and a Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke, and his recordings have appeared on several labels. This season's recital will feature "German Organ Music of Four Centuries," including works by Buxtehude, Bach, and Brahms on the Flentrop organ, as well...
Ciompi Concert No. 4 feat. Gerard McBurney, Narrator
Saturday, April 1, 2017 - 8:00pmThe Ciompi finish their season with a panoramic view of Beethoven's seminal string quartets. They start where the composer started, with his String Quartet No. 3, the first he composed. Jumping nearly thirty years to the pinnacle of Beethoven's quartet writing, they take on his complex and...
Music Lecture: Katherine Hambridge (Durham University, UK)
Friday, March 31, 2017 - 4:00pm"Popularising the 'Popular,' c. 1800." Katherine Hambridge focuses on French and German musical life in the first half of the nineteenth century. Her current research concerns the transfer and circulation of theatre repertoire and personnel between Paris, Vienna and Berlin, in particular, the...
CANCELLED: Saxophone Master Class with Anders Paulsson
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 5:00pmThis master class has been cancelled.
Duke Chorale Spring Tour Concert
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 8:00pmThe Duke Chorale returns to campus following its Spring 2017 concert tour to Central America. The group will offer a diverse selection from Renaissance pieces to contemporary works, including American folk songs and spirituals. The Duke University Chorale, conducted by Rodney Wynkoop and...
Karen Walwyn, piano: Works by African American composer Florence Price (1887-1953)
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 8:00pmFlorence Price (1887-1953) was the first African American female composer to gain national status. The works on this program were part of a rare find of music recently discovered in Price's abandoned home in Kankakee, IL. They have been edited by Dr. Barbara Jackson of Fayetteville, Arkansas....
Duke Symphony Orchestra with Jimmy Gilmore, clarinetist
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 8:00pmProgram: Rossini: Overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie); Copland: Concerto for Clarinet & String Orchestra, with Harp & Piano; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, "Italian." Jimmy Gilmore is a native of Dallas, Texas and is Principal Clarinetist (ret.) of the North...
Piano Master Class with Karen Walwyn
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 5:00pmKaren Walwyn is Associate Professor in the Howard University Department of Music. She is an accomplished concert pianist, composer and recording artist for Albany Records. Known for her recordings of two volumes of music by American composers entitled "Dark Fires," Prof. Walwyn performed select...
Ciompi Quartet Lunchtime Classics
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 12:00pmIn this free noontime event, one piece of chamber music will be performed by the Ciompi Quartet, accompanied by a short introduction that gives insight into the shape and brilliance of some of the canonical works of classical music. The Ciompi Quartet was founded at Duke University in 1965 by...