101 Years of World-Class Chamber Music
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Concerts are held in the
Mary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall
Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm
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Isidore Quartet October 9
Wednesday at 7:30
Program at UB is completely different.
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2024/25
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Isidore Quartet
October 8 & 9, 2024
Chiaroscuro Quartet
November 5, 2024
Hermitage Piano Trio
December 3, 2024
Horszowski Trio
January 21, 2025
Balourdet Quartet
February 18, 2025
Quatuor Van Kuijk
March 4, 2025
Jupiter Quartet
April 8, 2025
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Gift to the Community Concerts
Sunday Afternoons at 3 P.M.
Pre-concert Performance at 2:15
Pre-concert Performance at 2:15
Made possible through a grant from the Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation.
Now in its 26th 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
Oliver Neubauer, violin
with Zhu Wang, piano
October 6, 2024
Mary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall
Kleinhans Music Hall
Program
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
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
Buffalo Suzuki Strings violinists
Bio
American violinist Oliver Neubauer is a YCA Jacobs Fellow as First Prize winner of the 2023 Susan Wadsworth Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Impacting audiences around the world with his uniquely beautiful playing and mature artistry, Oliver has been described as “grippingly precise and gleaming” by the San Francisco Classical Voice.
Michael Yeung, percussion
November 3, 2024
Mary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall
Kleinhans Music Hall
Program
Rebonds B ---- Iannis Xenakis
Rêverie (arranged for vibraphone) ---- Claude Debussy
Loops II --- Philippe Hurel
Lute suite in e minor------- J.S. Bach
Rebonds A ---- Iannis Xenakis
In a Landscape (arr. for marimba and vibraphone) ---- John Cage
Le corps à corps --------------Georges Aperghis
Rêverie (arranged for vibraphone) ---- Claude Debussy
Loops II --- Philippe Hurel
Lute suite in e minor------- J.S. Bach
Rebonds A ---- Iannis Xenakis
In a Landscape (arr. for marimba and vibraphone) ---- John Cage
Le corps à corps --------------Georges Aperghis
2:15 Pre-concert Recital
SUNY Fredonia Percussion Ensemble
Bio
Michael Yeung is a unique percussion artist equally comfortable as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral performer, and his career has taken him across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His solo recitals include a wide repertoire of music from the Baroque to the 21st century. As a chamber musician, he has appeared with the internationally acclaimed Percussion Collective in the world-premiere of Argentinian composer Alejandro Viñao’s Poems and Prayers, performing alongside many of today’s most important young percussionists.
James Baik, cello
March 9, 2025
Mary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall
Kleinhans Music Hall
Program
Variations chantantes sur un air ancien ---- Hahn
Cello Sonata, Op.65 ---- Britten
Romance in A Major, Op.69 --- Faure
Sicilliene, Op.78 ---------- Faure
Violin Sonata in A Major ---- Franck
Cello Sonata, Op.65 ---- Britten
Romance in A Major, Op.69 --- Faure
Sicilliene, Op.78 ---------- Faure
Violin Sonata in A Major ---- Franck
Pre-concert Recital
BRAVO Chamber Music Workshop students
Bio
Cellist James Baik has been described as an artist with "an undeniable authority," and one possessing "a real
warmth emerging in lyricism" by Belgian newspaper Le Soir, after his astounding performance at the 2021 Queen
Elisabeth competition. First prize winner of the 2023 Susan Wadsworth Young Concert Artists International
Auditions and recipient of the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Prize, James is
a YCA Jacobs Fellow and is managed worldwide by Young Concert Artists.
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BCMS Archive
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.