Since its founding in 1965, the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University has delighted audiences and impressed critics around the world. All its members are professors at Duke, where they teach instrumental lessons, coordinate and coach chamber music, and perform across campus in concert halls, libraries, dormitories and classrooms. In a career that spans five continents and includes many hundreds of concerts, the Ciompi Quartet has developed a reputation for performances of real intelligence and musical sophistication, with a warm, unified sound that allows each player’s individual voice to emerge.
“From beginning to end the playing sounded intelligent and sure, sofened at the edges with a full and mellow tone.”
The New York Times
Ciompi Journal
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A Duke Moment Takes Flight
Back To Recording Ciompi has been back in the recording studio for the first time in seven years, at the results pay a great homage to Duke University.For the first time in seven years, Ciompi releases a new album. Marking Duke University’s Centennial Celebration, this release brings together works by three Duke composers who have…
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Ciompi Reflects and Refreshes
Taking A Moment To Review Ciompi violist Jonathan Bagg looks back on a stacked spring as the quartet gears up for another exciting season ahead.The Ciompi had an incredibly ambitious agenda this spring season: among other things, we performed Duttilleux’s Ainsi La Unit, Schoenberg’s Quartet No. 4, Bartok No. 4, a new 5-movement work by…
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The Portfolio Project 2024
The Ciompi Quartet Portfolio Project began in the summer of 2020 as a way for the Quartet to engage with composers in Duke Music’s graduate program during the COVID-19 pandemic, when live performances were curtailed and composers and performers needed creative outlets for their music. The success of the initial project inspired the Ciompi Quartet…
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