2025-2026 Season

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At Kleinhans
Concerts are held in the Mary Seaton Room
Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm
Takács Quartet
September 30
Septura
October 21
Jack Quartet / Amy Williams
November 11
Escher Quartet / Carol Wincenc
December 2
Leonkoro Quartet
February 24
Goldmund Quartet / Wendy Chen
March 24
Jerusalem Quartet
April 28
At UB
Jerusalem Quartet
Wednesday April 29, 2026 at 7:30 pm
This is not a repeat of the Tuesday program
but a completely different program.
For ticket prices call the
UB box office 716.645.2921

Gallery 25/26

Support the Buffalo Chamber Music Society

Gift to the Community Concerts

Sunday Afternoons at 3 P.M.
Pre-concert Performance at 2:15
Made possible through a grant from the Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation.
Now in its 27th season, our Gift to the Community series continues to feature some of the world's most exciting young artists. Four performers from our previous seasons have won 1st prize at the coveted Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and 10 series performers have been awarded highly competitive Avery Fisher Career Grants. This season the three artists will astound you with their unique creativity and incomparable technique.
Clementina Fleshler - Executive Director

Artists this season

Gift Artist
Photo Credit:Shervin Lainez

Erin Wagner, mezzo-soprano


September 21, 2025
Mary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall

The mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner has made her mark not only in traditional vocal roles but as anadvocate of contemporary music on modern themes. A native of El Paso, Texas, Erin holds a bachelor’s degree from The Manhattan School of Music and a master’s degree from Juilliard, where she won the Juilliard Vocal Arts Honors Recital. She won the 2021 Naumburg Foundation Vocal Award, making her Carnegie Hall recital debut with the program “But how things change” which featured classics and works by contemporary composers. She is an alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio and the Merola Opera Program, where she won the Schwabacher Recital Debut Auditions.

Sonata No.22, K.305 ---- Mozart
Three Romances, Op.22 ---- Clara Schumann
Valse-Scherzo, Op.34 ----Tchaikovsky
Fantasy for Solo Violin ----Zwilich
Violin Sonata Op.18 ----- Richard Strauss

2:15 Pre-concert Recital


TBA

Gift Artist

Kiran Atom Tellian, piano

February 1, 2026
Mary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall

The pianist Kiron Atom Tellian grew up in Vienna, one of the world capitals of classical music,where he made his debut with orchestra at the age of nine. Currently a student at Juilliard, he studies with the renowned concert pianist Sergei Babayan. In addition to his ability as a pianist, he has gained attention as a composer. He was recently commissioned to write an orchestral work to be performed at Vienna’s famous Musikverein. He has won several important international competitions for piano, chamber music, and composition in Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the USA and Japan among others.

Sonata No.22, K.305 ---- Mozart
Three Romances, Op.22 ---- Clara Schumann
Valse-Scherzo, Op.34 ----Tchaikovsky
Fantasy for Solo Violin ----Zwilich
Violin Sonata Op.18 ----- Richard Strauss

2:15 Pre-concert Recital


TBA

Gift Artist

BKW Trio

March 22, 2026
Mary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall

Three young graduates of the prestigious Cleveland Institute of Music formed the BKW Trio in2023, studying in the conservatory’s Advanced Piano Trio Program. The members include thepianist Jacob Bernhardt, violinist Konrad Kowal and cellist Nora Willauer. At the ClevelandInstitute, they studied chamber music with Sharon Robinson and Jaime Laredo, both membersof the famous Kalichstein–Laredo–Robinson Trio, as well as with the pianist Kathryn Brown.They will perform works of Beethoven, Higdon and Dvořák

Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost" ---- Beethoven
Piano Trio ---- Jennifer Higdon
Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65 ----Dvorak

2:15 Pre-concert Recital


TBA

Performing Archives

This BCMS performing archive is a complete record of the chamber music ensembles, recitalists and compositions that have been heard on the series since 1924.
BCMS Performing Archive
1924 - 2023
BCMS Personnel Archive
1924 - 2023
Gift Performing Archive
1998 - 2023
Gift Personnel Archive
1998 - 2023