Ciompi Quartet Offers Free Concert/Lecture Today at Noon

The Ciompi Quartet will offer a free concert/discussion today (Wednesday) at noon in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room in Rubenstein Library.

The musicians will perform Ravel's “String Quartet in F Major”, accompanied by a short introduction that gives insight into the shape and brilliance of some of the canonical works of classical music.

The members of the quartet are Eric Pritchard, Hsiao-mei Ku, Jonathan Bagg and Fred Raimi. It was founded at Duke University in 1965 by the renowned Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi. All its members are professors at Duke and play a leading role in its cultural life, in addition to traveling widely throughout the year for performances.

In a career that includes many hundreds of concerts and spans five continents, the Ciompi Quartet has developed a reputation for performances of real intelligence and musical sophistication, and for a warm, unified sound that is enhanced by each player's strong individual voice.