DIALI CISSOKHO & KAIRA BA – UNIVERSAL LOVE Wednesday, May 30, 2018 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:30) Motorco Music Hall, Durham Combining passionate originality and fierce authenticity, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba take West African dance music into new territory Diali Cissokho – kora; Jonathan Henderson – bass Austin McCall – drums; Will Ridenour – […]
Griot and master kora player Diali Cissokho, originally from Senegal, lovingly calls North Carolina home. Watch Cissokho and highly attuned percussionist Austin McCall interweave melody, rhythm and 2000 years of history. Hear the calabash, dun duns, kora and lyrical Mandinka stories old and new. The concert will last an hour and is appropriate for all people 5 – 99 years […]
Mallarme will reveal our next season at our annual donor appreciate event, Party on the Porch. In addition to the opportunity to purchase a 2018-19 season subscription at an advance-purchase discount, there will be a short musical presentation by members of the Vivaldi Project. Food, drink and hobnobbing in a beautiful Durham home included. All you need […]
Join violinist Janet Sung and pianist William Wolfram as they perform music recently recorded for a new CD on the Sonos Luminus label, plus the lush Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor with Mallarme-ites violist Suzanne Rousso and cellist Nathan Leyland. With Enescu’s Romanian musical heritage, Brahms’s Gypsy-style rondo and American composers Missy Mizzoli and Dan Visconti’s wild and frenzied violin music, […]
Duke Chapel Bach Cantata Series/ Dr. Philip Cave, Music Director Concert No. 1 FREE PROGRAM: J.S Bach: Chorale Prelude, Was Gott tut, BWV 1116 Johann Pachelbel: Cantata, Was Gott tut, P 487 J.S Bach: Chorale Prelude, Jesu meine Freude, BWV 610 Dieterich Buxtehude: Cantata: Jesu meine Freude, BuxWV 60 J.S Bach: Cantata: Weinen, Klagen, BWV 12 Bach Cantata Choir: Margaret Carpenter Haigh, Patricia Phillips, […]
Purchase Tickets MALLARME’S 35TH CONCERT SEASON Thursday, November 8, 2018, 7:30 pm DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL – Durham WE THE PEOPLE Sunday, February 3, 2019, 2:00 pm FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH – Durham LEIPZIG LOCALS Saturday, March 9, 2019, 3:00 pm HOUSE CONCERT LATIN PASSIONS THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2019, 7:30 pm ST MATTHEWS CHURCH – Hillsborough BRITISH […]
SERIES CONCERT #2 – WE THE PEOPLE Thursday, November 8, 2018 7:30 pm – PSI Theatre, Durham Arts Council, Durham Blue Mountain/ Forecast express their musical First Amendment in a provocative concert of pieces from the 1970s to the present, including the winning work from Forecast’s 2018 International Call for Scores competition. Selected works include Fredrick Rzewski’s protest work Coming […]
Join harpist extraordinaire Laura Byrne as she and several of her students, Kate Twiss (8th grade) and Jocelyn Bowns (10th grade), serenade us with beautiful music. You will learn about the history and the workings of the modern-day harp. Music of Bach, Britten, Handel, Debussy, Grandjany, Renie, Salzedo, Vivaldi and others. Family concerts are appropriate […]
Mallarme HIP Musicians join Dr. Philip Cave and The Duke Chapel Bach choir in Sunday afternoon performances of cantatas by Bach and his contemporaries Sunday, November 25, 5:15 pm J.S. Bach Cantata: Nun komm, BWV 61 Marc-Antoine Charpentier “O” Antiphons, H36-43 and Noëls sur les instruments, H531 & H534 Michael Altenburg Cantiones de Adventu J.S. Bach […]
Join Charles and Sarah Wines, Renaissance musicians, in a program introducing early instruments! From shawms, to recorders and even an early bagpipe, you will get a full experience of sound and music from the 13th and 14th centuries. Family Concerts are appropriate for any one 5-years-old plus, and are about one-hour long. They are held […]
SERIES CONCERT #3 – LEIPZIG LOCALS Sunday, February 3, 2019 / 2:00 pm Music by J. S Bach’s contemporaries with a Leipzig connection featuring Kathie Stewart from Apollo’s Fire on the traverso (baroque flute) with cellist/gambist Jaap ter Linden. Joining in with a program are baroque violinist Nicholas DiEugenio and harpsichordist Elaine Funaro. This concert is given in partnership with the Raleigh Area […]
The Mallarmé Chamber Players will present a one-day workshop for professional musicians on Sunday, March 3, 2019 taught by professionals from the Creative Capital.This workshop is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, as part of its commitment to artists’ professional development. It has partnered with Creative […]
Ignite your heart with an afternoon of passionate music from Italy and Spain performed by harpist Jacquelyn Bartlett, cellist Nathan Leyland and mezzo soprano/ guitarist Salomé Sandoval. LATIN PASSIONS will be performed up close in an unique concert on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 3:00 pm. Click for Program notes PROGRAM “Seguidillas” (Spanish dances) for voice and guitar – Fernando Sor (Spain 1778-1839) […]
Join The Magic of African Rhythms in an interactive concert featuring West and Central African dance, drumming melodic instruments, and song. Teli, Mabiniti and Aya Shabu will demonstrate the fundamentals of African drumming and its origins. Family Concerts are appropriate for any one 5-years-old plus, and are about one-hour long. They are held in Kirby […]
St Matthew’s Episcopal Church, a beautifully quaint church in charming Hillsborough, is the perfect venue for a program of early music from Great Britain. From the baroque to early classical eras, the evening’s concert, BRITISH BAROQUE-ISH, will include pieces by Handel, Henry Purcell, William Flackton and Andreas Lidel. Featuring the talents of Gail Ann Schroeder, viola da gamba; Suzanne Rousso, […]
Mallarmé will reveal our next season at our annual donor appreciation event, Party on the Porch. In addition to the opportunity to purchase a 2019-20 season subscription at an advance-purchase discount, there will be a short musical presentation. Food, drink and hobnobbing in a beautiful Durham home included. Please let us say “thank you” in the way […]
Experience the rehearsal process by attending a FREE open rehearsal on Friday, Sept 6 from 12:30-2 for Mallarme’s first concert of the season on Sept 8. The rehearsal (and the concert) will take place at the Durham Arts Council in downtown Durham. Feel free to drop in with your lunch, or just come to listen. […]
Purchase Tickets 2019-20 Concert Series: Hearing Our Stories 1. Sunday, September 8, 2019, 3:00 pm PSI Theater, Durham Arts Council, Durham Durham @ 150: Chamber Music of 1869 more 2. Friday, October 11, 2019, 7:30 pm First Presbyterian Church, Durham A Series of Unfortunate Musical Events with Low and Lower more 3. Saturday, February 1, 2020, 3:00 pm Hayti Center, Durham […]
Mallarmé presents a snapshot of the musical world of 1869, the year of Durham’s founding, with chamber music from Europe and America. Jennifer Curtis, violin/ Mimi Solomon, piano/ Chris Caudill, horn/ Rachel Niketopoulos, natural horn Robert Schumann – Adagio and Allegro in A-flat Major, Op. 70 (1849) Edvard Grieg – Violin Sonata No. 2, in […]
Low & Lower, Brooks Whitehouse – cello and Paul Sharpe – bass, America’s #1 selling cello/bass duo celebrates its popular mashup of comedy, virtuosity and satire with a new show, A Series of Unfortunate Musical Events. The show centers around a musical settings of two great adventure tales from the wilds of Alaska. In his musical […]
