1. J A N U A R Y
Tuesday, January 10 — Friday, January 13
Alexander Technique Residency with William Conable
Call 919-660-3333 for specific times & events. Department of Music Master Class Series
Friday, January 13, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Faculty/Guest Recital: Eric Pritchard, violin, William Conable, cello,
and Philip Amalong, piano
Works by Fauré and Schubert
Friday, January 20, 4:30 pm, Room 104, Biddle Music Building
Lecture Series in Music: Richard Will (University of Virginia)
“Zooming In, Gazing Back: Don Giovanni on Television”
Saturday, January 21, 12 pm, Nelson Music Room
Percussion/Composition Master Class with the Meehan/Perkins
Percussion Duo
Department of Music Master Class Series
Saturday, January 21, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Encounters: with the music of our time presents the Meehan/Perkins
Percussion Duo and guest performers Nicholas Lewis, clarinet/bass
clarinet, and Dan Lippel, guitar. Expert percussionists Todd Meehan
and Doug Perkins offer a program including premieres by postdoctoral
fellow Daniel Thomas Davis and faculty composers Stephen Jaffe,
Anthony Kelley, Scott Lindroth and John Supko.
Sunday, January 22, 4 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
Saturday, January 28, 12 pm, Nelson Music Room
Chamber Music Master Class with the Claremont Trio
Department of Music Master Class Series. Presented in association with Duke Performances.
Sunday, January 29, 5 pm, Duke Chapel
Organ Recital: David Arcus
Featuring music by Canadian composers
Presented by Duke Chapel Music
F E B R U A R Y
Friday, February 10, 6 pm, Biddle Music Building Lobby
Shades of Blue: A showcase of a cappella music featuring Duke’s
own Out of the Blue, Rhythm & Blue and Deja Blue.
Saturday, February 11, 7 pm-12 am, Durham Armory, 220 Foster St.
Duke Wind Symphony — Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conductor
Viennese Ball: fundraiser for the Duke Wind Symphony
$12 general and student Flex; $10 student cash
Sunday, February 12, 4 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
8th Annual Valentine’s Day Jazz Concert, featuring the Duke Jazz
Ensemble, North Carolina Central University Jazz Ensemble and
UNC-Chapel Hill Jazz Ensemble
$15 general, $10 students & senior citizens; 919-684-4444
Tuesday, February 14, 12 pm, Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library
Ciompi Quartet Lunchtime Classics
Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 83
Presented by Duke Performances
Thursday, February 16, 7:30 pm, Smith Warehouse Garage (Bay 4)
Film Screening: An Encounter with Simone Weil
Presentation of the documentary is followed by a conversation/Q&A
with director Julia Haslett & composer Daniel Thomas Davis.
Co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, Screen/Society, and
Audiovisualities Working Group
Thursday, February 16, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
Duke Jazz Ensemble — John Brown, director
Guest Artist: Carmen Lundy, vocalist
$10 general, $5 students & senior citizens; 919-684-4444
Friday, February 17, 4:15 pm, Person Recital Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
Lecture Series in Music: Peter Westergaard (Princeton University)
Co-sponsored with the UNC-CH Department of Music
Saturday, February 18, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
Ciompi Quartet and the Borromeo String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2
George Enescu: Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7
Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 16
$20 general, $5 students; 919-684-4444
Presented by Duke Performances
Sunday, February 19, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Katharina Uhde, violin & R. Larry Todd, piano
Mozart, Sonata in E-flat, K.302 and Variations on the theme
“Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant” in g minor, K.374b
Beethoven, Sonata in G major, Op. 96, No. 10
Brahms, Sonata in d minor, Op. 108
Thursday, February 23, 8 pm, Page Auditorium
Duke University Wind Symphony — Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, dir.
Featuring Johann Mösenbichler, guest conductor and the
North Carolina Saxophone Ensemble, guest ensemble
Affinities: works by Johann Strauss II, Frank Ticheli, Steven Bryant,
Johan de Meij and others
Friday, February 24, 8 pm, Sheafer Lab Theater
Encounters: with the music of our time presents Wet Ink Ensemble,
performing repertoire from their current season plus works by Duke
graduate composers
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, February 25, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Encounters: with the music of our time presents Wet Ink Ensemble,
performing new works by Duke graduate student composers
D. Edward Davis, David Kirkland Garner, Tim Hambourger,
Jamie Keesecker and Dan Ruccia.
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.
Sunday, February 26, 3 pm, Nelson Music Room
Faculty Recital: Fred Raimi, cello; Jane Hawkins, piano
with Eric Pritchard, violin
Perfume and Bratwurst: Music of Chaminade, Poulenc, Bach, Schubert
Sunday, February 26, 5 pm, Duke Chapel
Organ Recital: Dongho Lee
Presented by Duke Chapel Music
Tuesday, February 28, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Music of Bill Robinson
Eric Pritchard & Mary Kay Robinson, violin; David Marshall, viola;
Bonnie Thron & Nathan Leyland, cello; Thomas Warburton, piano
Wednesday, February 29, 5 pm, Nelson Music Room
String Ensemble Master Class with Edgar Meyer
Department of Music Master Class Series. Presented in association with Duke Performances.
Wednesday, February 29, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Faculty Recital: Andrew Bonner, violin & Randall Love, piano
Works for Baroque and modern violin by Beethoven and others
M A R C H
Thursday, March 1, 5 pm, Nelson Music Room
Contemporary Piano Repertoire Master Class with Omri Shimron
Department of Music Master Class Series
Friday, March 2, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Encounters: with the music of our time presents Aimee Marcoux,
soprano and pianists Tomoko Nakayama & Omri Shimron.
Frederick Rzewski, The People United Will Never Be Defeated:
Variations on a Chilean Popular Song, and the premiere of Michael
Trinastic's opera in three scenes, The Yellow Wallpaper, on an
original libretto based on the story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Saturday, March 10, Page Auditorium
Duke University String School, directed by Dorothy Kitchen
3 pm: Beginning Ensembles & Intermediate I
7 pm: Intermediate II & DUSS Youth Symphony Orchestra
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2. M A R C H cont.’d
Tuesday, March 13, 8 pm, Duke Chapel
Duke Chorale — Rodney Wynkoop, director
Spring Tour Concert: Music from the Chorale’s Florida tour
Works by Handel, Bach, Byrd, Mozart, Tschesnokoff, Whitacre, and
featuring Sarah Hopkins’s Past Life Melodies (with overtone singing).
Wednesday, March 14, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
Duke Symphony Orchestra — Harry Davidson, music director
Hommage à Mozart, with Bo Newsome, oboist
Ibert, Hommage à Mozart
Barlow, The Winter’s Passed, for Oboe and Strings
Mozart, Symphony No. 36 in C Major “Linz,” K. 425
and featuring Jameson Kuang, 2011-12 Student Concerto Competition
winner, performing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in g minor
Friday, March 16, 4:30 pm, Biddle Music Building Lobby
Collegium Musicum — Alexander Bonus, director
The Air in Springtime: Airs and madrigals by John Dowland,
Luca Marenzio, Thomas Morley, and other composers revered
during the Elizabethan Age. Performed with instruments from
the Duke University Musical Instrument Collections.
Saturday, March 17, 12 pm, Nelson Music Room
Conversation with Garrick Ohlsson, moderated by Prof. R. Larry Todd
Presented in association with Duke Performances
Sunday, March 18, 5 pm, Duke Chapel
Organ Recital: Robert Parkins
Fantasies and Fugues: works by Bach, Franck, and Reger
Saturday, March 24, 12 pm, Nelson Music Room
Chamber Music Master Class with the Borromeo String Quartet
Stephen Jaffe’s String Quartet No. 2 ("Aeolian and Sylvan Figures")
Department of Music Master Class Series
Saturday, March 24, 8 pm, Duke Chapel
Duke Chorale, Duke Chapel Choir & the Choral Society of Durham,
with Orchestra Pro Cantores – Rodney Wynkoop, director
Berlioz Requiem
$20 general/students free; 919-684-4444
Sunday, March 25, 4 pm, Duke Chapel
Berlioz Requiem (see information above)
$20 general/students free; 919-684-4444
Tuesday, March 27, 7:30 pm, Nelson Music Room
Composer’s Voice: Investigations and collaborations with Jacqueline
Horner Kwiatek, mezzo soprano, & members of the graduate seminar,
“The Composer as Artist in the Public Arena: Working with Text as
Sound, Narrative and Musical Potential,” taught by Daniel Thomas
Davis and Stephen Jaffe.
Friday, March 30, 4:30 pm, Room 104, Biddle Music Building
Lecture Series in Music: Michael Cuthbert (MIT)
“What were the odds?: Reexamining Early (and not-so-Early) Music
with statistical models”
Saturday, March 31, 12 pm, Nelson Music Room
Viola Blues Workshop with Katrina Wreede, formerly of the Turtle
Island String Quartet
Department of Music Master Class Series. Presented in association with Mallarmé
Chamber Players.
A P R I L
Thursday, April 5 – Sunday, April 15, Reynolds Industries Theater
Ragtime: musical presented by Hoof n’ Horn and the Departments of
Theater, Music and Dance. Featuring the Duke Chamber Players.
Various show times; visit tickets.duke.edu for details
$10 general/$5 students & senior citizens; 919-684-4444
Thursday, April 5, 12 pm, Bryan Center Plaza
Encounters: with the music of our time presents Wet Ink Ensemble
in an open-air concert.
Friday, April 6, 9 pm, Duke Coffeehouse
Encounters: with the music of our time presents DANCE MIX!
Wet Ink and guests perform new music by Janet Chen,
Bryan Christian, D. Edward Davis and Kenneth David Stewart;
Alex Kotch presents a set of dance music and a new work for live
instrumental ensemble and electronic beats, with Hip Hop, Dubstep,
and Techno influences. Followed by sets from local DJs.
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, April 7, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Ciompi Quartet Concert with Ian Hobson, piano
Beethoven: String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Donald Wheelock: String Quartet No. 6 (World Premiere)
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84
$20 general/$5 students; 919-684-4444
Presented by Duke Performances
Tuesday, April 10, 12 pm, Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library
Ciompi Quartet Lunchtime Classics
Haydn: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, Op. 133
Presented by Duke Performances
Wednesday, April 11, 8 pm, Page Auditorium
Duke Symphony Orchestra — Harry Davidson, music director
Abundant Anniversaries Redux, with Laura Valles, soprano;
Nathanael Hein, tenor and Brian Johnson, baritone.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Four Characteristic Waltzes, Op. 22
Giovanni Gabrieli, Sonata Pian’ e Forte (featuring combined brass
of the Duke Symphony Orchestra & Duke Wind Symphony,
Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conducting)
Jules Massenet, Orchestral Suite No. 1, Op. 13
Claude Debussy, L’Enfant Prodigue, scène lyrique
Thursday, April 12, 8 pm, Page Auditorium
Duke University Wind Symphony — Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, dir.
Something Old, Something New, featuring Rachael Elliott, bassoon.
Works by Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Giovanni Gabrieli, Jukka-Pekka
Lehto, and premieres by Duke University composition students.
Sunday, April 15, 8 pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building
Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme] — Timothy Hambourger, director
Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 pm, Nelson Music Room
Student Chamber Music Recital
Undergraduates perform works from the 18th-21st centuries
Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 pm, First Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Main St.
Conversation with Richard Goode, moderated by Prof. R. Larry Todd
Presented in association with Duke Performances
Saturday, April 21, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Sunday, April 22, 3 pm, Nelson Music Room
Duke Opera Workshop — Susan Dunn, director
Opera scenes and excerpts with piano accompaniment
Sunday, April 22, 4 pm, Page Auditorium
Duke Jazz Ensemble — John Brown, director
Guest Artist: Patrick Williams, composer/arranger
$10 general/$5 students & senior citizens; 919-684-4444
Friday, April 27, 8 pm, Biddle Music Building Lobby
Duke Chorale — Rodney Wynkoop, director
Celebration concert featuring highlights from the
Chorale’s 2011-12 season. Refreshments served.
Saturday, April 28, Page Auditorium
Duke University String School, directed by Dorothy Kitchen
3 pm: Beginning Ensembles & Intermediate I
4 pm: Chamber Music Groups
7 pm: Intermediate II & DUSS Youth Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, April 28, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Collegium Musicum — Alexander Bonus, director
The Musical Isle: Choice Ayres, Anthems, and Sonnets
from Seventeenth-Century Britannia
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
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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