PHOTO: Members from this group of Buffalo Chamber Players musicians will perform at the Quick Center for the Arts.

Buffalo Chamber Players will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. 

This is the third concert of the 2023-2024 Friends of Good Music performance season. 

 

Buffalo’s preeminent chamber music ensemble, Buffalo Chamber Players is the ensemble-in-residence at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and presents innovative music programs performed by the region’s finest musicians. 

 

Formed in 2007 by Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra violist Janz Castelo, the group is composed of members of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and other distinguished area musicians. Its mission is to challenge, redefine, and enhance the public’s perception of chamber music while promoting the city of Buffalo as an inspiring place to live, work, and play.

 

Performers for this concert are Anna Mattix, oboe; Loren Silvertrust, violin; Xiaofan Liu, violin; Janz Castelo de Armas, viola; and David Schmude, cello.

 

The group’s critically acclaimed concerts explore both historical chamber music masterworks and contemporary works by living composers. This program will present a mix of pieces by classic and contemporary composers, including “Succubus Moon” for oboe and string quartet by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1949, Alberga wrote the piece in 2007.

 

The group will also perform “Plan and Elevation,” composed in 2007 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, who was commissioned by the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, D.C., to write the piece to celebrate their 75th anniversary in 2015. Completing the program will be Franz Schubert’s String Trio in B-Flat Major, D. 471, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Quartet in F for oboe, violin, viola, and cello, K. 370.

 

Recent Buffalo Chamber Players projects include Western New York premieres of chamber operas by composers John Blow, John Harbison and Roland E. Martin; concert programs incorporating the works of Buffalo visual artists Gerald Mead, Catherine Burchfield Parker, Mark Lavatelli and Martha Visser’t Hooft; and collaborations with area organizations including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, and CEPA Gallery.

 

Tickets for this concert are $20 at full price, $16 for senior citizens and St. Bonaventure employees, and $5 for students. Basic season subscription tickets to six concerts are still available. The cost is $102 at full price, $84 for senior citizens and St. Bonaventure employees, and $27 for students.

 

For tickets and information, call The Quick Center at (716) 375-2494.

 

For each Friends of Good Music performance, The Quick Center will open its galleries one hour before the performance and keep them open throughout the intermission. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 

 

Museum admission is free and open to the public year-round. For more information, visit www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.  

 

 

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