Current Season
This season features performances, collaborations and explorations in contemporary music across UB and the community.
Steve Reich@90: Erik Hall
Date: Sept. 28 at 3 p.m.
Locations: B1 Slee Hall
Class performance for Eric Huebner’s Mus 198 Exploding Piano course.
Erik Hall is a musician and composer in Michigan. He is best known for his multi-instrumental recordings and live performances of contemporary classical works, which have been featured by The Wire, Pitchfork, NPR Music, Bandcamp Daily, WNYC New Sounds, and The New York Times.
His 2020 re-creation of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians won the Libera Award for Best Classical Record, and his 2023 interpretation of Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato followed with a nomination in the same category.
Slee Sinfonietta
Date: Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Baird Recital Hall
Musicians from the Slee Sinfonietta perform works by Kurtag and Jolas in celebration of their 100th year.
Kurtág, Selections from Kafka Fragments for violin and voice
Selections from Jåtékok for 4 hands piano
Betsy Jolas work(s)
Steve Reich@90: Cordancia with Guest Quince Ensemble
Date: Oct. 11 at 3 p.m.
Location: Lippes Concert Hall - Slee Hall
Performance of Reich’s Tehillim.
A treble voice ensemble dedicated to changing the paradigm for contemporary vocal chamber music.
Lachenmann@90: Seth Josel and Sungmin Shin
Date: Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Baird Recital Hall
Performance of Lachenmann Salut für Caudwell
As ensemble player and soloist, Seth Josel has been involved in the first performances of more than one hundred works. He has collaborated and consulted closely with such composers as Louis Andriessen, Gavin Bryars, Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Tristan Murail and James Tenney.
Korean-born American musician Sungmin Shin is an artist-teacher, arts leadership advocate, composer, consultant, engineer-producer, ensemble director, entrepreneur, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, music theorist and scholar.
Coltrane @100
Date: Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Asbury Hall - 341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14202
Isaiah Collier, sax and Tim Regis, drums
Isaiah Collier is a Chicago native, born and raised on the city's South Side. A compoer, arranger, educator, and self-described "sonic scientist," Collier has emerged as one of the most exciting voices in conemporary jazz. His work as earned numerous accolades from prestigious institutions and publications across the world.
Feldman @100; Mivos Quartet
Date: Dec. 13 at 2 p.m.
Location: Asbury Hall - 341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14202
Feldman String Quartet no. 2, 6-hour event with refreshments available.
The Mivos Quartet is devoted to bringing incredible new string quartet music, in all its variety, to diverse audiences worldwide. Since its founding in 2008, the quartet has performed and closely collaborated with established and emerging composers representing a broad range of demographics and compositional aesthetics.
NYNME 50th anniversary concert
Date: March 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Lippes Concert Hall – Slee Hall
The New York New Music Ensemble is performing music by UB PhD Composers as well as compositions by living composers
Since 1976, the New York New Music Ensemble (NYNME) has been on a mission to push the boundaries of contemporary chamber music. We’ve commissioned, performed, and recorded some of the most groundbreaking composers of our time—often before the world knew their names.
Slee Sinfonietta
Date: April 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Lippes Concert Hall – Slee Hall
UB PhD Student compositions and more
Program:
Jaman Dunn-Danger, Conductor
UB PhD Student compositions
Donatoni -
Refrain & Etwas Ruhiger im Ausdruck
Mivos Quartet
Date: April 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: B1 Slee Hall
Mivos Quartet performs Phd Student Francisco Corthey’s dissertation.
Mivos Quartet
Date: April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Baird Recital Hall
Mivos Quartet performs UB Phd Student compositions as well as compositions by living composers
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