Recent News

Prof. Guerra has been awarded a $4,082 grant by UB’s Office of International Education to support his research into the folk guitar tradition in Brazil known as “Choro.”

Prof. Strykowski will teach an honors only section of Mus 199 – The Economics of Genius and mentor honors students and serve as a guest in Hon 101 seminar.

Associate Professor of Music Jonathan Golove has been appointed Artistic Director of the Center for 21 Century Music and June in Buffalo through June 2026.  Prof. Golove succeeds longtime Center and June in Buffalo director David Felder who retired from UB this past spring.

We are pleased to welcome several new faculty members to the UB Department of Music this spring.

This year's expanded concert season includes performances by the Sphinx Virtuosi, a new Shostakovich Quartet cycle with the Alexander Quartet, and the Parker Quartet in the legacy Slee Beethoven Cycle. Read about the Center for 21st Century Music series, our brown bag concerts, and more here.

UB Professor of Piano Eric Huebner has released a new album of Etudes by living American composer Roger Reynolds, available now through Mode Records

On Wednesday October 27th, Professor Stephanie Vander Wel will launch her new book, Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women's Country Music 1930-1960 in a virtual event with the UB Gender Institute. Free. Register here to receive link.

Cellist Seth Woods, a distguished visiting scholar at the UB Center for Diversity Innovation, will present a solo concert, "Difficult Grace" at Lippes Hall on Friday Nov. 12 at 7:30 PM