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Duke flutists win honors at RAFA competition
Monday, November 25, 2019Two students in Carla Copeland-Burns' flute studio placed in the Raleigh Area Flute Association's 2019 Artist Competition earlier this month. Jessica Chen won the Undergraduate Division 7, and Sarah Tan as runner-up won Honorable Mention of Undergraduate Division 7.

Joel Krosnick (Cellist, Juilliard Quartet 1974-2016) engages with undergraduate musicians
Tuesday, November 12, 2019Three chamber music groups in the Chamber Music program, directed by Caroline Stinson, participated in a chamber music masterclass on November 7: Onomenos Quartet (Megan Rabe and Riya Shankar, violins; Charles Zhang, viola; Bryan Tong, cello) Stretto Quartet (Neha Vangipurapu and Joie... Read More »

An afternoon of chamber music brings undergraduates out of the concert hall
Tuesday, October 22, 2019Four undergraduate groups in the Chamber Music program in the Duke University Department of Music performed at the home of Michael and Elizabeth Schoenfeld on October 20. The afternoon concert included the Sanren Trio (Sanna Symer violin; Wallace Peaslee, cello; Courtney... Read More »
Faculty Position opening: Assistant or Associate Professor of Piano
Tuesday, October 8, 2019FACULTY POSITION IN MUSIC ASSISTANT / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PIANO The Department of Music at Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina, invites applications for a full-time faculty position in piano to begin August 1, 2020. Position: Assistant or Associate Professor of... Read More »

Flutist Alex Sopp artist residency 2019-2020
Monday, September 23, 2019Brooklyn-based musician and artist Alex Sopp will be on campus three times this year (September 2019, February 2020, March 2020), engaging with students and the community in numerous ways, including class visits, masterclasses, informal talks, and collaborative work. As the flutist of yMusic,... Read More »

Caroline Stinson performs in Copenhagen & Lark Quartet releases its "Farewell Celebration" CD
Tuesday, August 27, 2019Cellist Caroline Stinson will perform at the Rudersdal Summer Concert Series in Copenhagen on August 29. She and pianist Sarah Ho will present works by Joan Tower, Andrew Waggoner, Hans Abrahamsen, Beethoven and Fauré. Also in late August, Bridge Records released The Lark... Read More »

Georgiary Bledsoe (Ph.D. musicology, 2002) participates in Videmus conference at the University of Michigan
Thursday, August 22, 2019Georgiary Bledsoe will participate in a panel on September 14 led by Mark Lomax which explores new modes of youth music education using scholarly perspectives. Anthony Kelley, Associate Professor of the Practice of Music in the Duke University Department of Music, and Karen Walwyn,... Read More »

Sid Richardson (Ph.D Composition, 2018) at Tanglewood Music Center
Thursday, August 22, 2019Tanglewood premiered two movements of Richardson's dissertation piece Red Wind, which was recorded with Duke Performances in April 2017, and features professor Nathaniel Mackey's poetry. The premiere took place on July 21 at 10am in the Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. Other... Read More »

Graduate composer Dayton Kinney is a finalist for the 2019 Rapee Sagarik Composition Prize
Tuesday, July 30, 2019Kinney is headed to Thailand to attend the festival at the College of Music, Mahidol University, where her string quartet, “Hand Carved Names and Railroad Tracks,” will be premiered. This is a busy summer of premieres for Kinney. On July 12, her “Obsessive Snapshots” premiered at... Read More »

Incoming composition fellow Brittany Green receives JACK Quartet Studio Commission
Tuesday, July 30, 2019Described by Chicago Classical Review as “cinematic in the best sense” and “searing,” Brittany J. Green’s music is centered around facilitating collaborative, intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses. The intersection between sound, movement, and text serves as the focal point of... Read More »