2025 NC HIP Music Festival Schedule,  February 20 – March 9

The HIPster pass gives you free admission to every event for only $130. Single ticket/admission prices are listed per event.
Venues are in the Triangle area of North Carolina. PURCHASE A PASS

The HIP Festival is managed by Mallarmé Music with other ensembles participating, presenting their own events at their own expense.
HIPster passes cover the cost of marketing the festival as a whole, but do not cover any musician fees – please consider donating to your favorite ensembles!

WEEK 1
Thursday, February 20, 7:00 pm, Duke University Chapel, Durham Forgotten Clefs
CONCERT: Surviving Inquisition HP or $20 door

Friday, February 21, 7:30 pm, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Durham Mallarmé Music
  CONCERT: Classical Cats are HIP HP or tickets $10-$30 or season subscription

Saturday, February 22, 2:00 pm, Durham County Library, Durham Mallarmé Music
  FAMILY CONCERT: Everything you wanted to know about Lutes, but were afraid to ask FREE

Saturday, February 22, 7:30 pm, First Presbyterian Church, Durham Angels in the Architecture
  CONCERT: Under Paris Skies HP or $20 door

Sunday, February 23, 3:00 pm, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Chapel Hill, Baroque & Beyond
  CONCERT: Celebrating Boccherini HP or tickets $25 or season subscription

WEEK 2
Tuesday, February 25, 6:00 pm Venue TBD
  CONCERT: Le Cor Naturel: 19th century music for natural horn and piano FREE

Friday, February 28, 7:30 pm, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Durham Duo Cantabile
  CONCERT: Pitch Ascending HP or tickets $10-$15

Saturday, March 1, 3:00 pm St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Durham NC Baroque Orchestra Chamber Players
  CONCERT: The Oboe Quartet in the Time of Mozart HP or $15 door

Saturday, March 1, 7:30 pm, Person Recital Hall, UNC-CH, Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project
  CONCERT: Schubertiade: Franz and Fanny HP or tickets $10-$15

Sunday, March 2, 4:00 pm Private Home in Chapel Hill HIPster Reception
  MINI CONCERT: The Queen’s favorites: songs by John Dowland Hipster passholder

WEEK 3
Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 pm, St. Paul’s Lutheran, Durham Asheville Baroque
  CONCERT: J.S Bach: The Three Gamba Sonatas HP or $20 door

Thursday, March 6, 5:30 pm Person Recital Hall on the UNC-CH campus UNC Baroque Ensemble
  CONCERT: excerpts from Handel’s RINALDO FREE

Thursday, March 6, 8:00 pm, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Durham SaSa
   CONCERT: Love in Seville HP or $20 door

Friday, March 7, 7:00 pm, Goodson Chapel, in the Duke Divinity School, Durham Organists Jacqueline Farrell & Theodore Turner
 CONCERT: ORGAN FEST- Influencers of Bach and the Romantic Organ Symphony FREE

Saturday, March 8, 7:30 pm St. Matthew’s Episcopal  Church, Hillsborough, Tamsin & Friends
  CONCERT: Darkness to Light HP or $20 door

Sunday, March 9, 4:00 pm, Ravenscroft School, Raleigh, Raleigh Camerata, NC Master Chorale and Youth Choir
CONCERT: The Grand Motet HP or tickets $5-$20

PERFORMERS:

STRINGS: Kako Boga, Andrew Bonner, Keiran Campbell, Erika Cutler, Janelle Davis, Nicholas DiEugenio,
Elizabeth Field, Marta Howard, Barbara Krumdieck, Matvey Lapin, Tyler Lewis, Robbie Link, Lisa Liske-Doorandish, Allison Nyquist, Gabriel Richard, Suzanne Rousso, Gail Ann Schroeder, Jessica Troy, Stephanie Vial, Allison Willet, David Wilson, James Wilson, Sarah Wines, Brent Wissick
PLUCKED STRINGS: Christa Patton, Salome Sandoval, William Simms, Daniel Swenberg, Craig Wiggins
KEYBOARD: Jacqueline Farrell, Monet Jowers, Mimi Solomon, Jennifer Streeter, Larry Todd, Theodore Turner
RENAISSANCE and BAROQUE WINDS: Christopher Armijo, Alma Coefman, Keith Collins, Sung Lee,
Kelly Nivison, Barbara Norton, Kelsey Schilling, Sarah Huebsch Schilling, Jennifer Streeter, William Thauer, Charles Wines
BRASS: Chris Caudill, Rachel Niketopoulos
VOCALISTS: Lev DePaolo, Laura Heimes, Salome Sandoval, Tamsin Simmill, Kirsten Overdahl Swanson
POETS: Allison Hurwitz, Maura High

ENSEMBLES:

Angels in the Architecture, Asheville Baroque, Baroque & Beyond, Duo Cantabile, Forgotten Clefs, Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project, Mallarme Music, North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, North Carolina Master Chorale and Youth Choir, Raleigh Camerata, Sasa (formerly El Fuego), UNC Baroque Ensemble

PARTNERS:

St Paul’s Lutheran Church, Durham, NC
Duke Chapel Music
St Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, NC
Durham County Library