Fall 2024

September

Tuesday, September 10
11 a.m.–6 p.m.

Slee Hall box office only.

Special Ticket Promotion:

Buy One Get One Free!

Receive one complimentary ticket for every ticket purchased to a UB Department of Music concert. The complimentary ticket does not need to be for the same event. 

Friday, September 13 
7:30 p.m.

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

Eric Huebner.

Faculty Recital:

Eric Huebner, piano

A one hour program of Viennese music to celebrate our new Bosendorfer pianos!

Thursday, September 19
3:30 p.m.

Baird Recital Hall
Room 250 Baird Hall

Baird Lecture Series:

Miriam Piilonin

"Charles Darwin vs. Herbert Spencer: Reconsidering an Historic Debate about the Evolutionary Origins of Music “

Sunday, September 29
3 p.m.

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

Faculty Recital:

Roland E. Martin, piano and organ, with Sidney King, double bass

Program to include new works by both performers for piano and double bass.  This concert kicks off a four concert tour to different colleges and universities.

October

Tuesday, October 1
12:05 p.m.

Brown Bag Concert

Informal, 45-minute concert experiences where patrons are invited to bring and enjoy a brown bag lunch. The programs will feature performances by students and faculty from the Department of Music and will be announced from the stage. 

UB Music@Hallwalls

341 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202

Performances to take place at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.

  • Monday, October 21 – Eric Huebner and Friends
  • Monday, November 18 – UB Voice Faculty
  • Monday, December 9 – UB Student Composers
  • Monday, February 3 – UB String Faculty
  • Monday, March 3 – UB Jazz Faculty and Students
  • Monday, April 7 – UB Student Composers

Isidore String Quartet

Tuesday, October 8

$30

Mary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall

Isadore String Quartet.

 Adrian Steele & Phoenix Avalon, violin; Devin Moore, viola; Joshua McClendon, cello.

Bonus Concert in Kleinhans Music Hall

Co-sponsored with the Buffalo Chamber Music Society

Mozart: String Quartet in C Major, K.465
Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in Eb Major, Op.44, No.3

This event will not be offered as part of the BOGO sale.

Wednesday, October 9
7:30 p.m.

$20

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

Isadore String Quartet playing on a stage.

Slee Visiting Artist Series:

Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet (1931)
Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
Bartók: String Quartet No.2

Their take on [Mendelssohn] combined delicacy with warmth and terrific clarity of textures.

— The Arts Desk.com

Thursday, October 10
3:30 p.m.

Baird Recital Hall
Room 250 Baird Hall

Baird Lecture Series:

Martha Feldman

“Vocal Deliriums”

Tuesday, October 22
7:30 p.m.

$20

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

Special Event:

Talea Ensemble

Olga Neuwirth: Quasare/Pulsare II
Tiffany Skidmore: The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy
Igor Santos: Lamento
Pascale Criton: Process (2013)
Luigi Nono: A pierre 
Ming Tsao: Not Reconciled

Thursday, October 24
3:30 p.m.

Baird Recital Hall
Room 250 Baird Hall

Baird Lecture Series

Brian Moseley and Ming Tsao

A look at two composers: Professor Moseley will spend the first portion of the lecture on Arnold Schoenberg, then Professor Tsao will follow with a similar length talk on the work of Helmut Lachenmann. The audience will have an opportunity for questions during each portion of the session.

November

Friday, November 1
7:30 p.m.

$20

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

Mingus Dynasty Septet.

Wayne Escoffery, tenor sax; Mark Gross, alto sax; Conrad Herwig, trombone; Philip Harper, trumpet; David Kikoski, piano; Boris Kozlov, bass; Donald Edwards, drums

Slee Visiting Artist Series:

Mingus Dynasty Septet

The Mingus Dynasty Septet exclusively performs the music of composer/bassist Charles Mingus, who taught at UB in 1971 and celebrated his centennial year in 2022.

The performance will be preceded by a 7:30 p.m. talk moderated by Jeff Miers and featuring Sabu Adeyola, a current UB faculty member and protégé of the late jazz master Charles Mingus.

A workshop will be open to the public on Saturday, November 2, from 9 to 11 a.m. in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall.

The hippest big band in the universe - robust, earthy, sanctified.

— Time Out New York

Tuesday, November 5
12:05 p.m.

Brown Bag Concert

Informal, 45-minute concert experiences where patrons are invited to bring and enjoy a brown bag lunch. The programs will feature performances by students and faculty from the Department of Music and will be announced from the stage. 

Wednesday, November 13

Baird Recital Hall
Room 250 Baird Hall

Special Event:

Min Jin, tenor

Professor Min Jin received his DMA from the Eastman School of Music and is currently an associate professor at Towson State University in Maryland. His program will be announced.

Co-sponsored by UB’s Asia Research Institute.

Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle, Part I:

Slee Beethoven String Quartet.

Ari Isaacman-Beck & Carlos Rubio, violin; Adrianna Linares, viola; Jesús Morales, cello.

Dali Quartet

  • Thursday, November 14 – Concert I: Opp. 127, 18/1, 59/3
  • Friday, November 15 – Concert II: Opp. 74, 18/2, 131
  • Master Class on Saturday, November 16 at 11 a.m (Free)
  • Saturday, November 16 – Concert III: Opp. 18/3, 133, 59/1
All four musicians shone with brilliant accuracy in the rollicking Finale, a mock-serious fugue that proved a technical tour de force.” [Beethoven Quartet in C Major, op. 59, #3]

— Charles T. Downey, Washington Classical Review

Wednesday, November 20
7:30 p.m.

FREE

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

UB Concert Band

Jon Nelson, conductor

Thursday, November 21
7:30 p.m.

FREE

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

UB Symphony Orchestra

Jaman Dunn- Danger, conductor

Friday, November 22
7:30 p.m.

FREE

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

UB Jazz Ensembles

George Caldwell, Director

December

Friday, December 6
7:30 p.m.

FREE

Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall

UB Choir and Chorus

Claudia Brown, conductor