Jerusalem Quartet to perform at UB and Kleinhans Music Hall

The renowned Jerusalem Quartet will perform two concerts in October as part of UB’s Slee Visiting Artist Series — one at UB and one in Kleinhans Music Hall co-sponsored by the Buffalo Chamber Music Society.

The quartet will perform in the Mary Seaton Room at Kleinhans at 8 p.m. Oct. 18; the concert at UB will take place at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.

The string quartet — violinists Alexander Pavlovsky and Sergei Bresler, violist Ori Kam and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov — will also work with UB student musicians in a public coaching session at 10 a.m. Oct. 19 in Lippes Concert Hall. The session is free and open to the public.

The programs:

Kleinhans Music Hall

Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2

Webern: Langsamer Satz

~intermission~

Tchaikovsky: Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

Tickets are $30 and may be purchased on the Buffalo Chamber Music Society website: https://www.bflochambermusic.org. Students are free.

UB

Mozart: Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575 (“Prussian”)
Prokofiev: Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92 (“On Cabardian Themes”)
~intermission~
Brahms: Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1

Tickets for the concert are $20; UB students with valid ID may pick up their free ticket before concert time. Tickets may be purchased through Ticketmaster, at the Center for the Arts box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, or at the Slee Hall box office an hour before concert time.

Described as “a single instrument with 16 strings” by The New York Times, the Jerusalem Quartet is a regular and beloved guest on the world’s great concert stages. Recent appearances include a Beethoven quartet cycle at Wigmore Hall in London; a Bartok cycle at the Salzburg Festival; a third annual String Quartet seminar in Crans Montana Switzerland; and a residency this fall at the Jerusalem Academy of Music.

The quartet has received numerous awards for its recordings, including the Diapason d’Or and the BBC Music Magazine Award for chamber music. They have recorded the string quartets of Haydn, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden,” an album of Dvorak’s String Quintet Op. 97 and Sextet Op. 48, and the quartets by Ravel and Debussy.

​In 2019, the quartet released a unique album exploring Jewish music in Central Europe between the wars and its far-reaching influence, with a collection of Yiddish cabaret songs from 1920s Warsaw, as well as works by Schulhoff and Korngold. The second installment of their Bartok quartet recording was released in 2020.