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Ying String Quartet to conclude cycle
The Ying String Quartet will return to UB later this month to perform the final two concerts in this year’s Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle.
A return visit to UB by the internationally renowned Ying String Quartet is among the highlights of the Department of Music’s concert schedule in February.
The February lineup also includes recitals by violist Kim Kashkashian and pianist Robert Levin, and UB faculty members Jonathan Golove and Eric Huebner.
The Ying Quartet, which had performed the first concert in the 2008-09 Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle, will conclude this year’s cycle by performing the fifth and sixth concerts at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 and 3 p.m. Feb. 19 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
Quartet members Ayano Ninomiya and Janet Ying, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; and David Ying, cello, also will take part in two free events while at UB. They will conduct a composer workshop at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 15 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus, and a chamber music/string master class later that day at 7 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall. Both of these events are open to the public.
Advance tickets for the Ying’s two concerts are $12 for the general public; $9 for UB faculty, staff, alumni and senior citizens; and $5 for students. At the door, tickets are $20, $15 and $8.
The Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world. Now in its second decade, the quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications in its tours across the United States and abroad. Performances regularly take place in many of the world’s most important concert halls, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House.
At the same time, the quartet’s belief that concert music also can be a meaningful part of everyday life has drawn the foursome to perform in settings as diverse as the workplace, schools, juvenile prisons and the White House.
The February concert schedule will open on Feb. 7 with a performance by violist Kim Kashkashian and pianist Robert Levin in an all-Schumann program at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall.
The concert is part of this season's Slee/ Visiting Artist Series.
Advance tickets are $12 for the general public; $9 for UB faculty, staff, alumni and senior citizens; and $5 for students. At the door, tickets are $20, $15 and $8.
The musicians also will be featured in two free events at UB: the monthly Brown Bag Concert at noon on Feb. 7 in Lippes Concert Hall and a Composer Informance at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 8 in Baird Recital Hall.
Kashkashian, who will be making her first appearance at UB, has been called one of the most accomplished artists of her generation. Her recordings have received many awards, among them the Edison Prize in 1999 and the Cannes Prize for Chamber Music in 2000. She has toured and played with many notable artists, including Gidon Kremer and Yo-Yo Ma.
Levin, who performed at UB in fall 2008, is known for his love of Mozart and new music. He is also a beloved music theorist and composer who has reconstructed and completed a number of classical works, including, but not limited to, incomplete works by Mozart.
UB faculty members Jonathan Golove, cello, and Eric Huebner, piano, will perform a program that has been dubbed “Back in the USSR” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 in Lippes Concert Hall.
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for UB faculty/staff/alumni, senior citizens and non-UB students, and free for UB students with ID.
The “Back in the USSR” program includes the work of Tchaikovsky, Roslavets, Gubaidulina and Shostakovich.
Associate professor of music at UB, Golove is a dedicated performer of both new and traditional works, as well as of improvised music. He has been featured as cello soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Slee Sinfonietta and New York Virtuoso Singers; as theremin cello soloist with the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, London Sinfonietta and International Contemporary Ensemble; and as baroque cellist with the USC Early Music Ensemble.
Huebner, an assistant professor of music, has drawn worldwide acclaim for his performances of new and traditional music since making his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 17. As a frequent guest pianist with the New York Philharmonic, he has been featured in performances of Stravinsky’s Petroushka and Firebird suites, in addition to symphonies by Ives and Martinu. He also appears regularly as a part of CONTACT!—the Philharmonic’s recently formed new music series.
Tickets for all Department of Music concerts can be purchased at the Slee Hall box office, at the Center for the Arts box office and at all Ticketmaster outlets, including Ticketmaster.com.
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