J. Samuel Hammond Carillon Recital: Mitchell Eithun

Name: J. Samuel Hammond Carillon Recital: Mitchell Eithun
Start: 2025-09-28T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-28T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 401 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC, United States, North Carolina 27708

Schedule

Sun Sep 28 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

401 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC, United States, North Carolina 27708 | Durham, NC

This J. Samuel Hammond Carillon Recital is performed on the Chapel's fifty-bell carillon, and may be enjoyed al fresco from the beauty of Abele Quad. The recital will be presented rain or shine.
Parking is available on a first-come-first-served basis in the Bryan Center garage at 125 Science Drive. ADA parking is available in the Bryan Center Surface Lot at the same address.
The musician for this recital is Mitchell Eithun, one of the Duke University Chapel carillonneurs. Eithun first encountered the carillon in 2019 while a student at Michigan State University, where he took lessons with late carillonneur Ray McClellan. Since then, he has visited and played over twenty carillons in the United States and two in Scotland. He is an active church music composer and has over eighty published pieces of handbell music and has received commissions from community and church handbell ensembles. He is also the founding director of Bell Durham, a community handbell ensemble in Durham, North Carolina, and he serves as the Handbell Editor at Beckenhorst Press. Eithun is an associate member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and a seminar instructor for the Handbell Musicians of America.
Both the instrument and the recital series are named in honor of the late J. Samuel Hammond (1947-2021), University Carillonneur Emeritus, who played Duke's carillon from 1964 until his retirement in 2018.