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Chamber Arts Society

Interview: Incoming Emerson String Quartet Cellist Paul Watkins

May 14, 2013

The Emerson String Quartet, an institution of American chamber music, is currently undergoing its first membership change in decades. On Saturday, longtime cellist David Finckel passed the torch to Paul Watkins, who makes his first appearance at Duke Performances with the Emerson in December. After speaking with both Finckel and violinist Philip Setzer about the

Interview: Violinist Leila Josefowicz on New Music & John Adams

March 6, 2013
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Leila Josefowicz is a violinist who lives ahead of the curve. She forged a close relationship with one of our most prominent composers, John Adams, in her early twenties, became a MacArthur Fellow by age 30, and works tirelessly to develop new music by the likes of Esa Pekka-Salonen and Oliver Knussen. As she prepares

Interview: Pianist Angela Hewitt on Bach and Debussy

February 14, 2013
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Put simply, Angela Hewitt is the definitive Bach pianist of our time. Her 11-year endeavor to put all his major keyboard works onto CDs for Hyperion resulted in “one of the recorded glories of our age,” said the Sunday Times. As Hewitt prepares to perform a stylish showcase of Bach and Debussy suites at Reynolds

Interview: St. Lawrence String Quartet Cellist Christopher Costanza

February 1, 2013
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A longstanding favorite on Duke Performances and Chamber Arts Society stages, the effusive St. Lawrence String Quartet returns on Saturday with the pianist Stephen Prutsman, who joins them to perform César Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor. After speaking with Prutsman about their fertile relationship yesterday, we get the St. Lawrence Quartet’s side from Christopher

Interview: Pyrotechnic Pianist Stephen Prutsman

January 31, 2013
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This Saturday, February 2, the world-renowned and locally cherished St. Lawrence String Quartet returns to Duke Performances with an exciting program featuring a sonata by Britten, a new work by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and the sizzling conclusion of César Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor. Longtime friend and collaborator Stephen Prutsman, a brilliantly mercurial pianist

Interview: JACK Quartet Violist John Pickford Richards

November 27, 2012

The JACK Quartet thrives in the most outré regions of the repertoire, as will be on display at its pair of Duke Performances concerts this weekend. On Saturday night at Reynolds Theater, Webern’s Six Bagatelles and Steven Mackey’s Physical Property (with the composer in tow on electric guitar—read our interview with Mackey here) are tempered

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