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Artists this Season
Jerusalem Quartet | October 18 & 19Castalian Quartet | November 15
Emerson Quartet | December 13
Verona Quartet | February 7
Quicksilver | March 14
Modigliani Quartet April 11
Brentano Quartet | April 25
At Kleinhans
Concerts are held in theMary Seaton Room
Kleinhans Music Hall
Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm
Pre-concert talk with
the musicians 6:45
At UB
Jerusalem Quartet | October 19Wednesday at 7:30 pm
This is not a repeat of the Tuesday
program but a completely different
program.
Call UB box office for ticket prices
716/645-2921
Pre-concert performance at 2:45 Made possible through a grant from the Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation.
Now in its 24th season our Gift to the Community series continues to feature some of the world's most exciting young artists. Four performers from previous seasons won 1st prize at the coveted Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and 10 series performers have been awarded highly competitive Avery Fisher Career Grants. This season the three artists will astound you with their unique creativity and incomparable technique.

Kleinhans Music Hall
Trois melodies de Verlaine---------Debussy
Songs to poems by Frank O'Hara-----Berg
The Holy Sonnets of John Dunne, Op.35 ----Britten
Strange Enchantment---- Coward
“Viciously beautiful timbre” .......... Boston Globe
Praised for his “lovely, nuanced tenor” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Daniel McGrew is an active
performer of a broad range of repertoires spanning opera, musical theatre, early, and new musics.
Daniel was the First Prize Winner of the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, where he also received the St. Vincent College Concert Prize and the University of Florida Performing Arts Prize. In the summer of 2021, Daniel was in residence for the second time at the Marlboro Music Festival. He has also performed at the Tanglewood Music Festival and participated in the annual Festival of Contemporary Music.
Daniel holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Yale University. He recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan.

Kleinhans Music Hall
Violin Sonata, FP 119 ----------Poulenc
Chaconne from Partita in D minor ----- Bach INTERMISSION
Fantasie -------- Olivier Messiaen
Bird as Prophet ----- Schumann
Violin Sonata No. 2, Sz. 76 ----- Bartók
“Lun Li has admirable command of all the possibilities of the bow, and uses it with delightful musical sense.” ..... LUDWIG VAN
MONTRÉAL
A native of Shanghai, China, violinist Lun Li won First Prize in the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, as well as The Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize and The Buffalo Chamber Music Society Prize, and was named John French Violin Chair at YCA. Traveling between Shanghai and Philadelphia has brought him experience and honor including performances at the Marlboro Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Music from Angel Fire, and Verbier Festival Academy.
Lun recently graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music with a bachelor’s degree under the tutelage of Ida Kavafian, and was a recipient of the Jean J. Sterne fellowship. Lun is now pursuing a master’s degree at the Juilliard School with Catherine Cho and Joseph Lin.

Kleinhans Music Hall
Sonata in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2 ----------Beethoven
Toccata on "L’Homme armé" -----Marc-André Hamelin
INTERMISSION
The Willows are New -------- Chou Wen Chung
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel
------Op.24 Brahms------
“Technical mastery and a deep sense of lyricism.” ..........The Durango Herald
Pianist Zhu Wang has been honored by many international awards including first prize at the 2nd Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians, and special prizes in the 5th International Chopin Young Artist Piano Competition and in the 16th Asian Chopin International Piano Competition in Japan. At Juilliard he won the Juilliard Gina Bachauer International Scholarship Piano Competition and received Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship. Zhu has been a featured soloist on WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase and WFMT’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts.
Contributions also make it possible for us to present educational programs that bring chamber music to young people and members of the community. Gifts can be made by check (made out to BCMS) through the mail at: PO Box 349, Buffalo, NY 14207 or online using PayPal. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Buffalo Chamber Music Society this season.


Busch Quartet
1940
Guarneri Quartet
1967
Jupiter Quartet
1967
Tokyo Quartet
2016
Miro Quartet
2016
Brentano Quartet
2017
Takács Quartet
2017
Verona Quartet
2017
Dover Quartet
2018This BCMS performing archive is a complete record of the chamber music ensembles, recitalists and compositions that have been heard on the series since 1924.



