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This catalog site is designed so that it can be searched by keyword, collection, type of instrument, and date. It contains information on instruments in the possession of Duke University, with the exception of modern practice and performance pianos.
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Contact Info
Dr. Brenda Neece, DPhil (Oxon.)
Curator, DUMIC
Box 90665
Durham, NC 27708-0665
USA
Tel: 919-660-3320
Fax: 919-660-3301
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Brenda Neece
Brenda Neece, DPhil (Oxon.), is the curator of the Duke University Musical Instrument Collections (DUMIC). Her area of specialization is the history of the cello in Britain. She studied cello with Fred Raimi here at Duke while she did her undergraduate work at UNC-CH. As part of her interdisciplinary major in music history, art history, and archaeology, she wrote an undergraduate honors thesis on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century evolution of the cello. She earned a master’s in cello performance at Auburn University and then went on for her musicology doctorate at the University of Oxford (Somerville College). While in England she continued her cello studies with William Pleeth. This is her 8th year at Duke. She also serves the university as an academic advisor, faculty-in-residence, and as an assistant coach to the Duke fencing team.