Buffal Chamber Music Society

"Passion, precision, warmth, a gold blend: these are the trademarks of this excellent Israeli string quartet.“ ..... The New York Times

The Jerusalem Quartet is a regular and beloved guest on the world’s great concert stages. With regular bi-annual visits to North America, the Quartet has performed in cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Washington, and Cleveland as well as in the Ravinia Festival.  In Europe, they enjoy an enthusiastic reception with regular appearances in London’s Wigmore hall, Tonhalle Zürich, Munich Herkulessaal and Theatre des Champs-Elysé.

The Jerusalem Quartet’s recordings for the label Harmonia Mundi have been honored with numerous awards such as the Diapason d’Or and the BBC Music Magazine Award for chamber music.  In 2019, the Quartet released a unique album exploring Jewish music in Central Europe between the wars and its far-reaching influence. The second installment of their Bartok quartet recording was released in 2020. 

“A powerful individuality of sound matched by an instinctive singularity of musical intention”
 .....The Scotsman

In the decade since its formation, the London-based Castalian Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the most dynamic, sophisticated young string quartets performing today.  Named the inaugural Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at the Oxford University Faculty of Music in 2021, they are also the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2019 Young Artists Award. The Quartet received the prestigious inaugural Merito String Quartet Award and Valentin Erben Prize in 2018, has won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award, and is beginning to gain international acclaim as they take their talents abroad.

Pre-Covid highlights included debuts at the Paris Philharmonie and Vienna Konzerthaus; performances of the complete Haydn Op.76 Quartets at Wigmore Hall; concerts in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Heidelberger Frühling, East Neuk,  Zwischentöne Festival in Engelberg, Neuchatel Chamber Music in Switzerland and Banff International Festivals. Further afield they undertook tours of China and Colombia.

“The Emerson performances represented an extraordinary fusion of experience and authority with audacity and freshness.” ......The Boston Globe  

Since announcing their retirement after the 22-23 season the Buffalo Chamber Music Society feels very fortunate to have secured a performance on the series in their final season.

The Emerson String Quartet has maintained its status as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles for more than four decades. “With musicians like this,” wrote a reviewer for The Times (London), “there must be some hope for humanity.” The Quartet has made more than 30 acclaimed recordings, and has been honored with nine GRAMMYs® (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” award.

The Quartet’s extensive discography includes the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bartok, Webern, and Shostakovich, as well as multi-CD sets of the major works of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Dvorak. In 2018, Deutsche Grammophon issued a box of the Emerson Complete Recordings on the label.

"Outstanding ensemble of young musicians"........ The New York Times

The Verona Quartet is the recipient of the Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons.  Formed at Indiana University, the quartet currently serves as the inaugural quartet-in-residence with North Carolina’s Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, and are quartet-in-residence for the Indiana University Summer String Academy and New England Conservatory Preparatory School. 

The group has previously won prizes at the Wigmore Hall, Melbourne, Osaka, and M-Prize competitions, and received the 2015 Concert Artists Guild Competition. As recipients of the Cleveland award they will be presented by, among other concert venues, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Society of Detroit, and the University of Texas at Austin,

“Revered like rock stars within the early music scene” ......... New York Times

Quicksilver brings together today’s top North American historically-informed performers. Described as “drop dead gorgeous with a wonderful interplay of timbres,” (Early Music America) and praised as “irresistible” (Fanfare Magazine), Quicksilver vibrantly explores the rich chamber music repertoire from the early modern period to the High Baroque.

The ensemble has been featured at numerous music series and prestigious festivals, receiving critical acclaim, standing ovations and repeat invitations. Recent and upcoming appearances include Carnegie Hall, Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, Concerts from the Library of Congress, Toronto Consort Series, the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Da Camera Society (Los Angeles), Boston Early Music Festival, Vancouver Early Music Festival, San Francisco Early Music Society, Miami Bach Society, Madison Early Music Festival, Dumbarton Oaks Concert Series (Washington, DC) and Houston Early Music among others.

“ The Modigliani quartet clearly belongs to the world’s greatest " .......... Le Monde

The Paris based Modigliani Quartet, which was founded in 2003, is a regular guest of the world’s top venues and finest string quartet and chamber music series.  In 2020 the quartet became Artistic Director of the string quartet festival “Quatuors à Bordeaux” as well as the renowned “The Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition”.

.The quartet enjoys an international career with performances in Köln, Berlin, and Paris, as well as in Istanbul, Basel and Amsterdam.  The quartet has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released 10 award-winning CD’s since. Their recording all of Schubert’s string quartets was released in January, 2022. 

“Hair-raising....an ensemble of exceptional insight and communicative gifts.”
 ........ The Daily Telegraph (London).

Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. Within a few years of its formation, the Quartet garnered the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and was also honored in the U.K. with the Royal Philharmonic Award for Most Outstanding Debut. Since then, the Quartet has concertized widely, performing in the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Konzerthaus in Vienna; Suntory Hall in Tokyo; and the Sydney Opera House.

. Since 2014, the Brentano Quartet has served as Artists-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music. They were formerly the Ensemble-in-Residence at Princeton University, and were twice invited to be the collaborative ensemble for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.