Buffalo Chamber Music Society: Aizuri Quartet
$30
Béla Bartók — String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91, BB 95
Jennifer Higdon — String Quartet (world premiere)
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society is celebrating its 100th season by commissioning a new work by one of the leading composers in the United States, Jennifer Higdon. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Ms. Higdon has received commissions from major orchestras, including those of Chicago, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Philadelphia. Her quartet will receive its world premiere at this, our opening concert of the 2023-2024 season.
The Aizuri Quartet has earned a reputation as one of the best of the world's young chamber ensembles. Founded in 2012 by graduates of Curtis and Juilliard, the quartet won the University of Michigan's M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition. As the most recent winners of the Cleveland Quartet, the Quartet has forged a career that has included performances at major venues throughout the United States. Their debut album Blueprinting, featuring new works written for the quartet by five American composers, was named one of NPR Music's Best Classical Albums of 2018.
Concerts are held at the Mary Seaton Room at Kleinhans Music Hall on Tuesday evenings at 7:30pm. A pre-concert talk with the musicians is scheduled for 6:45pm.
About Buffalo Chamber Music Society
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society has been described as "the second-oldest chamber music presenting organization in the United States." Since its incorporation in 1923, the BCMS has brought hundreds of chamber-music performers and groups to perform in Buffalo, New York.
https://www.bflochambermusic.org/