June in Buffalo 2023

Soloists of the Slee Sinfonietta
4 p.m., Baird Recital Hall

• Zerstreutes Hinausschauen – Tomasz Sikorski
• Awakening, or Dreaming, as Chuang Tzu, or a Butterfly– Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung
• “...és még egy levél Eötvös Péternek...” [“...and yet another letter to Péter Eötvös”]– György Kurtág
• Erdenklavier—Himmelklavier (in memoriam Luciano Berio) – Péter Eötvös
• Dances of the Brush-Footed Butterfly – Péter Eötvös
• Zene húros hangszerekre, ütökre és cselesztàra, 1. tétel” (Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, I) – Bela Bartók, arr. György Kurtág

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Fernanda Lastra, Conductor
7:30 p.m., Center of the Arts, Mainstage

• Eliza Furnace – Mathew Rosenblum
• Die Dämmerungen, I-III – David Felder
• Proceed, Moon: Fantasy for Orchestra – Melinda Wagner

[Switch~ Ensemble]
4 p.m., Baird Recital Hall

• Rips Reveal Glimpses – Filippo Lepre
• Devin Cholodenko – Chasing Memory
• Fractured Emanations – William Brobston
• George Papajohn – Three Distortion Etudes
• Overcast Skies – Matthew Lam

Members of the Arditti Quartet and Jonathan Golove
Slee Sinfonietta with Tiffany Du Mouchelle
7:30 p.m., Lippes Concert Hall

• Maro – Robert HP Platz
• Some Road Signs in Southern France – Jonathan Golove
• Prelude to Mental Radio – Jonathan Golove
• vl2 – Robert HP Platz (World Premiere)
• Garden of Dawn – Stephen Yip

Intermission

• All those who live in such times – Benjamin Rieke
• Reflected tides – Paul Novak

Chamber Musicians of the Slee Sinfonietta and Guests
4 p.m., Lippes Concert Hall

• Chasing Memory – Emre Tetik
• Three Body Problem – Joachim Austin
• The Ostrich – Simon Cheek
• Journey to the North – Patricia Morehead
• They Always Try to Tell You Who You Are – Noam Faingold

Talujon Percussion with Jamie Jordan and Tiffany Du Mouchelle
Jeffrey Means, conductor
7:30 p.m., Lippes Concert Hall

• Here and There – Jonathan Golove

Intermission

• We Lived Happily During the War– Mathew Rosenblum

Arditti Quartet (Workshop)
2 p.m., Baird Recital Hall

• World on Fire – Susanna Payne-Passmore
• String Quartet No.2 – Marshall Estrin
• what’s inside the cold – Francisco Corthey
• ⍼ – Thomas Little
• Taos – Axel Retif
• Affine – Michael Grebla

[Switch~ Ensemble]
with guests from Wooden Cities
7:30 p.m., Lippes Concert Hall
Jeffrey Means, conductor

• 93 million miles away – Ann Cleare
• Unsung Chordata– Melinda Wagner
• O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden – Robert Phillips†

Intermission

• luna (the eye that opens the other eye) – Ann Cleare
• Falling –  Mathew Rosenblum

†PhD, UB (2012); Managing Director of the Center for 21^st Century Music, 2017-2023

Talujon Percussion
4 p.m., Baird Recital Hall

• Three Thoughts on Time – Joshua C. DeLozier
• Percussion Trio – Joel Kirk
• Flashbacks – Siqi Wang

Arditti Quartet
with guest Jonathan Golove, cello
7:30 p.m., Lippes Concert Hall

• Netivot – David Felder
• moil – Ann Cleare

Intermission

• strings (Echo VII) – Robert HP Platz
• Epilog – Wolfgang Rihm with guest Jonathan Golove

Slee Sinfonietta
Daniel Brottman, conductor
2 p.m., Lippes Concert Hall

• Wunderblock: Next (Elliott Carter for his 100th Birthday) – Robert HP Platz
• Imaginary Songs II – Jonathan Golove
• Wunderblock: Kiefer – Sekundenstücke – Robert HP Platz
• Quatre instants, I. Attente – Kaija Saariaho (1952 - 2023)
• Wunderblock – Robert HP Platz
• Four Settings – Melinda Wagner