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Duke Collegium Musicum
The Duke Collegium Musicum is an organization of undergraduate and graduate students and other interested members of the Duke community devoted to the performance of early music for small groups of voices and instruments. Its repertory includes (but is not limited to) Gregorian chant, Renaissance motets and madrigals, and Baroque sonatas and cantatas.
The Collegium is open to all members of the Duke community with an interest in performing music that is both unusual and exciting. The ability to read music is necessary, and some prior experience in chamber music or choral singing is helpful. The Music Department owns a number of period instruments (from gambas to sackbuts) that can be made available to qualified participants. There is also the opportunity to participate in recorder and viol consorts.
Bradley Simmons
Bradley Simmons, a native of New York City, began playing Afro-Cuban and African percussion when he was 9 years old. He traveled throughout the City seeking out percussion teachers from Haiti, Cuba and Africa in an effort to enhance his understanding of these rhythmic forms, styles and techniques. Bradley soon became a sought after Conguero and shekere player and a link in the chain of the oral traditions of Afro-Cuban and African music. Simmons has always sought out Afro-Cuban and African percussion in its purest forms, never deviating from long-standing traditions in rhythm and playing techniques. Simmons’ talents have been heard on Broadway in plays such as Timbuktu with Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore, Billy Wilson’s version of Guys and Dolls starring Robert Guillume, and Reggae with Calvin Lockhart and Philip Michael Thomas. He has also appeared in nightclubs with Eartha Kitt, Gregory, Maurice Hines, Miles Jaye, and Oba Babatunde. He has recorded and played with The Fatback Band and with drummer Norman Connors. Simimons has made television appearances, including performances on The Mike Douglas Show and the Cerebral Palsy Telethon. He directed his own show, Cultural Journey: The Elements of Percussion, at The National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, GA (1990) and Durham, NC (1996).
Simmons is the former Music Director of the Chuck Davis African-American Dance Ensemble of Durham, NC, and has taught throughout the United States, including the Larocque Bey School of Dance and the Gloria Jackson School of Dance in NYC. He has taught percussion classes and drum clinics at academic institutions including Berklee College of Music (Boston MA), Texas Southern University (Houston, TX), Wichita State University (Wichita, KS) and North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC). Currently, Simmons directs music ensembles at Duke, where he teaches both West African music and history. His classes focus on djembe, songba, djun-djun, and kenkeni. He also teaches Afro-Cuban percussion classes off campus. He is the leader of the percussion ensemble, The Elements of Percussion, touring around the nation.
The Elements of Percussion
Djembe/Djun Djun ensemble founded in 1997 by Bradley Simmons and based in Durham, North Carolina.
Jonathan Bagg
Jonathan Bagg is Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University and a member of the Ciompi String Quartet. His career with the Ciompi spans 23 years and includes hundreds of concerts across the U.S. and abroad in Europe, China, Israel, and South America, as well as over a dozen recordings. He directs the chamber music program at Duke and has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music. Prof. Bagg is also Artistic Director of the Monadnock Music festival in New Hampshire. He graduated with honors from both Yale University and the New England Conservatory.
Bruce C. Wright
A Durham resident, piper Bruce Wright has studied bagpipes under several noted pipers including Sandy Jones, Colin MacLellan, and Ed Neigh. He is a former Pipe Major of the City of Oaks Pipe Band and a current member of and instructor for the North Carolina State University Pipes and Drums.
Fred Raimi
Fred Raimi is the longest serving member of Duke University’s Ciompi Quartet, having joined the ensemble in 1974.Agraduate of the Juilliard School, Mr. Raimi received his M.M. degree from SUNY Binghamton, where he also performed as a member of the Amici Quartet. He has been artist-in-residence at Both Hamilton and Colgate Universities, and won the International Cello Competition in Portugal in 1971. He was a member of Pablo Casals’ final master class, and has participated in chamber music festivals throughout
the country, including the Spoleto Festival, Marlboro Festival, and Monadnock Music.
Thomas Gregg, tenor
Emily Laurance, harp
Dedicated to performing the varied and rich repertoire for high voice and harp, DoubleAction formed in 1999 as a collaboration between tenor Thomas Gregg and harpist Emily Laurance. Due to their common interest in research and performance practice, they specialize in harp-accompanied songs published between 1780 and 1830, performed on a fully-restored 1829 single-action harp. DoubleAction has presented historical programs for the Society for American Music, American Antiquarian Society, Boston EarlyMusic Festival and Library of Congress.
Philip van Lidth de Jeude
Dutch-born American tenor Philip van Lidth de Jeude has sung numerous leading operatic roles in the USA and in Europe and won a Bronze Medal in the 1981 International Competition for Musical Performance in Geneva, Switzerland. He has sung Otello, Male Chorus (THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA), Peter Grimes, Herod Antipas (SALOME), Florestan (FIDELIO), Radames (AIDA), Tichon (KATA KABANOVA) and Don José (CARMEN) in multiple theaters throughout Germany. He has guested at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, at the Eutin Opera Festival at the Castle Gardens, in Nürnberg, Wuppertal and Münster, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, with the Bavarian State Theater at Gärtnerplatz on tour and with the State Theater of Oldenburg, among others. During the summer of 1995 he sang the role of Samson (SAMSON ET DALILA) at Stifting Spanga in the Netherlands to critical acclaim.
Philip van Lidth de Jeude began his musical studies at the age of seven with private piano instruction. After receiving his Bachelor of Music and Post-Graduate Certificate at Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, he studied for his Master of Music at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and premiered several of his compositions during this period. After receiving his Master of Music, he joined the ensemble of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists in Chicago, IL, and had the opportunity of singing in productions of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
After teaching at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, Mr. van Lidth set up a private voice studio in Alton, IL, and returned to singing free-lance. He has also served as adjudicator for the Southern Illinois Young Artists’ Competition in Edwardsville, IL. He continued to appear in concert and recital from time to time, and one of his most interesting appearances was in New York City, where he joined his sister in a recital in which, for the first time in history, Wagner’s twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, were sung by a real brother and sister team.
Since moving to North Carolina in July 2004, he has taught privately while pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and continuing as free-lance singer, also appearing as Benjamin Franklin (1776) at the Arts Center in Carrboro and in the title role of The Mikado for UNCG Opera Theater.
Trio Rossignol
Trio Rossignol: Patricia Petersen, Karen Cook, and Douglas Young
Trio Rossignol is an ensemble of specialists in music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Their instrumental resources include shawm, cornetto, curtal, gemshorns, krumhorns, pipe & tabor, Renaissance flutes, hurdy-gurdy, and more than a dozen sizes and kinds of recorders. Rossignol performs music ranging from rollicking Renaissance songs to exciting medieval dances to lyrics of lost love. Patricia Petersen, director, plays and teaches recorder and other early woodwinds, early instrumental and choral music, Renaissance notation, and English country dance. Well-versed in the style and repertory of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods, she has a special passion for the intricacies of late 14th- and early 15th-century notation and music. Karen Cook is currently a current doctoral student in the music department of Duke University. She plays a variety of brass, percussion, and early wind instruments, and sings in the Duke Collegium Musicum and in various small ensembles around Durham. She is the organizer of the Duke Recorder Consorts, and splits her research between the Renaissance and the 20th century. Douglas Young plays all sizes of recorders, cornetto, shawms, and curtals. He sang in the Renaissance a capella ensemble, Fortuna, for 15 years, and played cornetto in the early brass quintet, The Carolina Waits. An accomplished banjo player, Doug shares a passion for the music and notation of the late 14th and early 15th centuries with a deep love of old-time Southern string band music.
John Pringle
John Pringle
John Pringle has spent the last thirty years helping to recreate the sounds of music from past times by building stringed instruments based on historical models from the 12th to the 18th centuries. As a professional luthier, his specialty is the viola da gamba, but he has also built early violins, medieval fiddles, lutes, citterns, liras and lirones. Recently his interest has turned to the music of the Far East, and tracing the origins of the instruments of China and Japan back through India and Central Asia to Mesopotamia and the Middle East.