1. DUKE UNIVERSITY • DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
EVENTS CALENDAR • Fall 2011
All events subject to change. ADMISSION FREE unless otherwise indicated.
PLEASE NOTE: Baldwin Auditorium is undergoing extensive renovation
during the 2011-12 season and will NOT be used for any events this year.
Please check the calendar carefully for information about alternate venues.
S E P T E M B E R
Sunday, September 4, 6 pm, East Campus Main Quad
DUKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Harry Davidson, music director
Pops Concert
Sunday, September 11, 4 pm, Duke Chapel
MOZART, REQUIEM — Rodney Wynkoop, conductor
A 10th anniversary memorial concert featuring the DUKE CHORALE,
DUKE CHAPEL CHOIR and the CHORAL SOCIETY OF DURHAM
Presented by Duke Chapel Music. 919-684-3898 or www.chapel.duke.edu
Sunday, September 18, 2:30 and 5 pm, Duke Chapel
Organ Recital: DAVID ARCUS
Presented by Duke Chapel Music.
Saturday, September 24, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
CIOMPI QUARTET: Haydn: String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20,
No. 1; Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49;
Dvorak: String Quartet in A-Flat Major, Op. 105
$20 general/$5 students & youth; 919-684-4444
Presented by Duke Performances
Tuesday, September 27, 12 pm, Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library
CIOMPI QUARTET Lunchtime Classics
Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 20, No. 1
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49
Presented by Duke Performances
Thursday, September 29, 5 pm, Nelson Music Room
Piano Master Class with SHUANN CHAI
Friday, September 30, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Guest Recital: SHUANN CHAI, pianist
Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Liszt
O C T O B E R
Saturday, October 1, 12 pm, Nelson Music Room
Woodwind Master Class with WINDSCAPE
Presented in association with Duke Performances
Saturday, October 1, Time TBA, Room 101 Biddle Music Building
Lecture Series in Music: MICHAEL LONG (University of Buffalo)
How Josquin Sounded: An Exercise in Musical Anthropology
Keynote lecture for the AMS-SE meeting. Open to the public.
More info: http://www.ams-net.org/chapters/southeast/
Saturday, October 1, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Faculty Recital: ELIZABETH BYRUM LINNARTZ, soprano &
DAVID HEID, piano
If Music Be the Food of Love: works by Purcell, Schubert, Rossini
and spirituals arranged by African-American women composers
Wednesday, October 5, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
DUKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Harry Davidson, music director
with HSIAO-MEI KU, violinist; DARRETT ADKINS, cellist, and
CICILIA YUDHA, pianist
A Beethovenian ‘Triple’ Play
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62; Concerto in C Major for
Violin, Cello and Piano, Op. 56; Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68
Thursday, October 6, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
DUKE WIND SYMPHONY – Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, director
Of Seas and Storms: featuring works by Grainger, Sousa, McBeth,
R. Williams, Whitacre, and others.
Saturday, October 8, Reynolds Industries Theater
DUKE STRING SCHOOL – Dorothy Kitchen, director
3 pm: Beginning Ensemble & Intermediate I
7 pm: Intermediate II & DUSS Youth Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, October 12, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Encounters: with the music of our time presents Estonian New
Music Group ENSEMBLE U, performing the world premiere of
Duke graduate composer Bryan Christian’s Walk, commissioned
by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. The six player
ensemble will perform additional works by contemporary Estonian
composers and American composers who collaborated with Ensemble
U through Fulbright grants.
Sunday, October 16, 5 pm, Duke Chapel
Organ Recital: WILMA JENSEN
Tuesday, October 18, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
HELIAND CONSORT performs Poulenc & Friends
Rachael Elliott, bassoon; Katie Oprea, oboe;
Elisabeth LeBlanc, clarinet; Cynthia Huard, piano
Works by Francis Poulenc, Jean Françaix, de Falla and others
Friday, October 21, 12 pm, East Duke Building Parlors
RANDY WESTON: In Conversation
Presented by Duke Performances
Tuesday, October 25, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Guest Recital: OLIVIER CAVE, piano
All-Italian program in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italian
unification, featuring works by Vivaldi, Busoni, Domenico & Alessandro
Scarlatti, Clementi, Dallapiccola and Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia.
Presented in association with the Department of Romance Studies
Wednesday, October 26, 4 pm, Nelson Music Room
Chamber Music Master Class with OLIVIER CAVE
Thursday, October 27, 8 pm, Duke Chapel
ERIC WHITACRE, guest composer and conductor
Featuring the DUKE CHORALE - Rodney Wynkoop, director &
DUKE WIND SYMPHONY - Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, director
Eric Whitacre will conduct the Duke University Chorale and the Duke
University Wind Symphony separately, followed by joint works
featuring choral students from Durham high schools.
Proceeds benefit the Chorale and Wind Symphony.
$25 general/$10 students/$100 concert & reception with
Mr. Whitacre. 919/684-4444 or www.tickets.duke.edu
Friday, October 28, 4:30 pm, Room 104 Biddle Music Building
Lecture Series in Music: MARIÉ ABE (Boston University)
Friday, October 28, 8 pm, Page Auditorium
DUKE JAZZ ENSEMBLE – John Brown, director
DUKE DJEMBE ENSEMBLE – Bradley Simmons, director
Showcase Concert with guest artist SLIDE HAMPTON, trombone
$5 general/students & seniors free w/ ticket or I.D.
Saturday, October 29, 8 pm, Duke Chapel
DUKE CHORALE, DUKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
DUKE WIND SYMPHONY
Showcase Concert
$5 general/students & seniors free w/ ticket or I.D.
Sunday, October 30, 4 pm, Nelson Music Room
Faculty Recital: HSIAO-MEI KU, violin & PHILIP AMALONG, piano
N O V E M B E R
Tuesday, November 1, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Faculty Chamber Music Recital
Featuring LAURA BYRNE, harp; SUSAN FANCHER, saxophone;
LEDA SCEARCE, soprano and others.
Thursday, November 3, 5 pm, Nelson Music Room
Piano Master Class with INGRID FLITER
Presented in association with Duke Performances
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Friday, November 4, 7:30 pm, Nelson Music Room
Faculty Recital: SUSAN DUNN, soprano & DAVID HEID, piano
Thursday, November 10, 5 pm, Nelson Music Room
Piano Master Class, Lecture and Demonstration of Feldenkrais
Method® of Somatic Education for musicians presented by GREG
McCALLUM
Friday, November 11, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Guest Recital: GREG McCALLUM, piano
Works by Bach, Grieg, Crumb and Messiaen
Saturday, November 12, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
CIOMPI QUARTET with KRISTA RIVER, mezzo soprano
Humperdinck: String Quartet in C Major; Puccini: “Crisantemi”
for String Quartet; Respighi: “Il Tramonto” for String Quartet
and Mezzo Soprano; Wolf: “Italian Serenade” for String Quartet;
Verdi: String Quartet in E Minor
$20 general/$5 students & youth; 919-684-4444
Presented by Duke Performances.
Sunday, November 13, 5 pm, Duke Chapel
Organ Recital: ANDREW UNSWORTH
Sponsored by Duke Chapel Music
Sunday, November 13, 8 pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building
DUKE NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE [dnme] — David K. Garner, director
Monday, November 14, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
GRADUATE COMPOSERS CONCERT
New works by Duke graduate student composers
Tuesday, November 15, 12 pm, Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library
CIOMPI QUARTET Lunchtime Classics
Haydn: String Quartet in C major, Op. 20, No. 2
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
Presented by Duke Performances.
Thursday, November 17, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
DUKE WIND SYMPHONY – Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, director
Flutes en masse, featuring REBECCA TROXLER
and the Duke University Wind Symphony Flute section.
Works by Chaminade, Ticheli, George, Grainger, Tchaikovsky, others.
Friday, November 18, 8 pm, Page Auditorium
DJEMBE & AFRO-CUBAN ENSEMBLES – Bradley Simmons, director
Guest Artist: KIMATI DINIZULU
Saturday, November 19, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
DUKE JAZZ ENSEMBLE – John Brown, director
DUKE OPERA WORKSHOP – Susan Dunn, director
The Joint is Jumpin': Music from the Swing Era
Sunday, November 20, 7 pm, Nelson Music Room
CIOMPI QUARTET & GEORGE GOPEN
Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Presented by Duke Performances
Sunday, November 20, 7 pm, Duke Chapel
DUKE CHAPEL CHOIR, directed by Rodney Wynkoop
Messiah Sing-Along
Presented by Duke Chapel Music
Tuesday, November 29, 7:30 pm, Nelson Music Room
STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL
D E C E M B E R
Friday, December 2, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
DUKE JAZZ ENSEMBLE – John Brown, director
with guest artist TOM BROWNE, trumpet
$10 general/$5 students & senior citizens; 919-684-4444
Friday, December 2, 7:30 pm, Duke Chapel
Saturday, December 3, 2 pm, Duke Chapel
Sunday, December 4, 3 pm, Duke Chapel
DUKE CHAPEL CHOIR – Rodney Wynkoop, director
Handel, Messiah
Admission charge; 919-684-4444. Presented by Duke Chapel Music
Saturday, December 3, 12 pm, Nelson Music Room
ANDRE WATTS: In Conversation
Moderated by Prof. Anthony Kelley
Presented in association with Duke Performances
Sunday, December 4, 4 pm, Nelson Music Room
Faculty Recital: JONATHAN BAGG, viola & JANE HAWKINS, piano
1850-1950: The Viola Emerges. Music from Schumann to Stravinsky
Monday, December 5, 7.30 pm, Memorial Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
Joint Concert: DUKE UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY - Verena
Mösenbichler-Bryant, director & UNC-CHAPEL HILL WIND
ENSEMBLE - Evan Feldman, director
$10 general/$5 students, faculty, staff and seniors
919-843-3333
Tuesday, December 6, 7 pm, Duke Chapel
DUKE CHORALE – Rodney Wynkoop, director
Christmas Concert
With seasonal music on the carillon and for organ at 6:30pm
Admission: one non-perishable food item for needy families in Durham
Wednesday, December 7, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
DUKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Harry Davidson, music director
with JEFFREY BROWN, pianist
Three Tributes and the Heir of Beethoven
Boyce, Symphony No. 4 in F Major; Mahler, Adagietto from
Symphony No. 5 in C# Minor; Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 2 in A
Major; Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Friday, December 9, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Encounters: with the music of our time presents repertoire by the
New York-based Wet Ink Ensemble for electronics, voice, saxophones,
percussion and keyboards. Works by Rick Burkhardt, George E.
Lewis, Alex Mincek, Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels, and Sam Pluta
Part of the 2011-12 WET INK residency sponsored by the Department of Music and a
Visiting Artists grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.
Saturday, December 10, 4 pm, The Ark
Encounters: with the music of our time presents the Wet Ink
Ensemble performing premiers of works by Duke graduate student
composers Youngmi Cho, Vladimir Smirnov, Paul Leary, and Paul Swartzel.
Part of the 2011-12 WET INK residency sponsored by the Department of Music and a
Visiting Artists grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.
Saturday, December 10, Page Auditorium
DUKE STRING SCHOOL – Dorothy Kitchen, director
3 pm: Beginning Ensemble & Intermediate I
4 pm: Chamber Music GroupsB
7 pm: Intermediate II & DUSS Youth Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, December 10, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
DUKE COLLEGIUM MUSICUM – Alexander Bonus, director
Sunday December 11, 3 pm, Nelson Music Room
Music of Hilary Tann
The composer will attend a concert of her works performed by SUSAN
FANCHER, saxophone; CLARA O'BRIEN, soprano; ERIN LESSER, flute;
GREG BEYER, percussion; and the RED CLAY SAXOPHONE QUARTET
(Susan Fancher, Robert Faub, Steven Stusek and Mark Engebretson)
Questions? CONTACT the Department of Music
Mailing Address: Duke University Department of Music, Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: 919-660-3300, Fax: 919-660-3301, Email: duke-music@duke.edu
If you would like to receive bi-weekly EMAIL REMINDERS of our events, please send an email to duke-music@duke.edu
The latest UPDATES to the calendar can be obtained by visiting www.music.duke.edu/performances
We would like to thank our SPONSORS
Encounters with the Music of Our Time, Graduate Composition concerts, Duke Opera Workshop,
and the Lecture Series are supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
TICKET Information: (919) 684-4444 or www.tickets.duke.edu unless otherwise noted
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