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Ciompi Quartet Presents: A Summer Music Series in Duke Gardens

By Duke Today Staff

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Three of the members of the Ciompi Quartet will fill up Duke Gardens this summer with music. Photo: Department of Music

For the fourth consecutive summer, members of the Ciompi Quartet will bring great classical music to audiences under the lights in Duke Gardens.

The 2015 Ciompi Quartet Presents, a summer chamber music series, will present some of the favorite pieces by members of Duke's string quartet performing along with other exceptional musicians.

These concerts are performed in an intimate environment and provide an opportunity to hear from the Quartet and their individual curatorial insights. This summer the series begins with a program presented by Eric Pritchard that explores connections between the Baroque and Classical music periods through works by the sons of J. S. Bach.

In later concerts, Jonathan Bagg will present a musical study of contrasts–composers, styles and virtuosity and Fred Raimi will end the series with a program featuring works by three of classical music’s greatest composers – Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.  (The fourth member of the quartet, Hsiao-mei Ku, will be in China during the summer with the Duke Engage program.)

  • Tuesday, June 2: Eric Pritchard presents “Mozart’s Playground,” a concert tracing the stylistic development of music from the Baroque period to the Classical era through works by C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach and Mozart.
  • Tuesday, July 7: Jonathan Bagg presents “Light and Shadow” a performance where the world of color, light and shadow emerge in three strings and a flute through the music of Mozart.  Bagg will perform with Andrew Norman, Gunther Schuller and Stephen Jaffe.
  • Wednesday, August 12: Fred Raimi presents “Three Bs in a Minor Key,” an evening of works by Beethoven, Bach and Brahms.

All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and will take place in Kirby Horton Hall in the Doris Duke Center in Sarah P. Duke Gardens.  Single tickets are available for $25 with discounts for students and Duke employees. Season subscriptions are $60. Purchase tickets online at tickets.duke.edu or by calling 684-4444.

The series is sponsored by the Duke Department of Music, the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts and Sarah P. Duke Gardens.