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SUMMARY:BAVPA Side by Side Concert
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, The Buffalo Academy for Visual & Performing Arts joins the BPO for an in-depth side-by-side experience for the music department students\, while also providing a showcase for all the disciplines at BAVPA\, including visual arts\, media arts\, drama and dance. \nMusic students at BAVPA receive coaching sessions from BPO musicians leading up to the concert\, and students from other departments prepare dramatic scenes\, artwork\, visuals and choreography that is incorporated into the program. The public is invited free of charge to experience the talents of Buffalo’s rising artists.
URL:https://romantic-cohen.161-35-132-96.plesk.page/event/bavpa-side-by-side-concert/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mendelssohn's Italian
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Under the baton of Fernanda Lastra\, this concert opens with Berlioz’s Roman Carnival\, a musical depiction of Italy’s festive spirit. The evening continues with Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5\, featuring the prodigiously talented Avery Gagliano\, with a performance expected to weave a narrative of adventure and enchantment\, echoing the composer’s impressions of Egypt. Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4\, “Italian\,” concludes the program\, a vibrant and joyful celebration of Italy’s landscapes\, light\, and color. This symphony\, one of Mendelssohn’s most beloved works\, captures the composer’s own Italian journey’s essence\, making for an exhilarating conclusion to an evening of music inspired by travel and discovery.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator css=””][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram\nFernanda Lastra\, conductor\nAvery Gagliano\, piano \nBERLIOZ  Roman Carnival Overture\nSAINT-SAËNS  Concerto No. 5 in F major for Piano and Orchestra\, Op. 103\, “Egyptian”\nI. Allegro animato\nII. Andante\nIII. Molto allegro \nINTERMISSION \nMENDELSSOHN  Symphony No. 4 in A major\, Op. 90\, “Italian”\nI. Allegro vivace\nII. Andante con moto\nIII. Con moto moderato\nIV. Saltarello: Presto[/vc_column_text][vc_separator css=””][vc_tta_accordion style=”outline” color=”black” active_section=”0″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”About Avery Gagliano\, piano” tab_id=”1744903927101-13ecfdea-7227″][vc_column_text css=””] \nCelebrated as “a distinctive young talent” (International Piano)\, pianist Avery Gagliano is recognized for interpretations with great emotional depth and a “distinctly narrative approach” (Miami International Piano Festival). Having first risen to international acclaim as the winner of the First Prize and Best Concerto Prize at the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition\, she has performed in prominent venues including Carnegie Hall\, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall\, the Louis Vuitton Foundation\, Salle Cortot\, Luxembourg Philharmonie\, Ehrbar Saal in Vienna\, and La Grange au Lac in Évian. \nAvery’s 2024-25 season includes performances with the Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan in addition to the Buffalo Philharmonic\, as well as recitals in Miami\, Key West\, Washington\, Vancouver\, Berlin\, and Warsaw. A finalist of the prestigious 2025 American Pianists Awards\, she will also be featured as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. \nIn recent seasons\, Avery has appeared with orchestras such as the Louisville Orchestra\, Maryland Symphony\, and Rochester Symphony\, as well as in recitals throughout Europe at the invitation of Sir András Schiff for his Building Bridges series. In Fall 2024\, she joined Sir András Schiff’s Performance Programme for Young Pianists at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. She has performed at leading festivals including Verbier\, Gilmore\, Aspen\, Bravo! Vail\, Sanibel\, and Miami International\, and is an alumna of the Gstaad Piano Academy\, Lieven Piano Foundation\, and the Lang Lang International Music Foundation’s Young Scholars Program. A sought-after collaborator and dedicated chamber musician\, she regularly shares the stage with ensembles such as the Balourdet Quartet and New York’s Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. \nAvery’s debut album\, Reflections (Steinway & Sons\, 2021) features repertoire at the heart of her music-making\, including works by Chopin\, Haydn\, Schumann\, and Adès. Her interpretations of works by Chopin have been hailed as “revelatory” (New York Classical Review)\, while recent programs have featured her passion for Schubert’s late piano sonatas and highlighted lesser-known works. Her performances have been broadcast across the United States on leading radio programs such as Chicago’s WFMT\, Philadelphia’s WRTI\, NPR’s From The Top\, and the celebrated American Public Media show Performance Today\, where she was a 2024 Young Artist in Residence. \nAvery is a recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music\, where she studied with Robert McDonald\, Gary Graffman\, and Jonathan Biss.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://romantic-cohen.161-35-132-96.plesk.page/event/mendelssohns-italian/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bernstein & Copland
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Join JoAnn Falletta and the BPO for a vibrant celebration of American music\, starting with Copland’s El Salón México\, a piece that captures the spirit and rhythms of Mexican dance halls. The concert features the professional premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings\, performed by the exceptional Timothy McAllister\, promising a work of great emotion and virtuosity that explores the saxophone’s expressive range. Ginastera’s Variaciones concertantes offers a showcase of Argentine musical traditions\, while Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story close the evening with thrilling\, jazz-infused melodies and the drama of New York’s city streets. This program highlights the diversity and innovation of American music\, celebrating its power to tell stories and evoke vivid landscapes.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator css=””][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram\nJoAnn Falletta\, conductor\nTimothy McAllister\, saxophone \nCOPLAND  El Salón México\nADOLPHUS HAILSTORK  Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings (2024)\nI. Allegro\nII. Lento\nIII. Molto vivace \nINTERMISSION \nGINASTERA  Variaciones Concertantes\, Op. 23\nBERNSTEIN  Symphonic Dances from West Side Story\nI. Prologue\nII. “Somewhere”\nIII. Scherzo\nIV. Mambo\nV. Cha-Cha\nVI. Meeting Scene\nVII. “Cool”\nVIII. “Rumble”\nIX. Finale[/vc_column_text][vc_separator css=””][vc_tta_accordion style=”outline” color=”black” active_section=”0″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”About Timothy McAllister\, saxophone” tab_id=”1744905387646-e82b6d24-1c97″][vc_column_text css=””]Saxophonist Timothy McAllister is hailed as “one of the foremost saxophonists of his generation” by The New York Times. He has premiered over 250 works\, and has been presented by major symphonies\, concert series\, and music festivals worldwide. \nComposers who have written concerti dedicated to McAllister include John Adams\, John Corigliano\, Kenneth Fuchs\, Adolphus Hailstork\, Jennifer Higdon\, Pierre Jalbert\, and Tyshawn Sorey\, with upcoming commissions by Steven Mackey\, Viet Cuong\, James Lee III\, and Errollyn Wallen. He has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues including London’s Royal Albert Hall\, the Sydney Opera House\, Carnegie Hall\, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. \nThis season’s highlights include McAllister’s debut with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Slatkin\, performing John Corigliano’s Triathlon. McAllister premiered Triathlon with the San Francisco Symphony led by Giancarlo Guerrero and can be heard on the world premiere recording of the work with the Nashville Symphony\, to be released by NAXOS. \nPrevious recordings with JoAnn Falletta include the GRAMMY Award-winning album featuring McAllister as soloist on Fuchs’ Rush with the London Symphony\, and Paul Creston’s Saxophone Concerto with the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic. \nWorld premieres performed by McAllister include Tyshawn Sorey’s Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)\, which received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music. McAllister\, who has a long history of collaborations with the MacArthur Fellowship Award-winning composer\, performed the world premiere of Adagio at the Lucerne Festival in 2022 and the American premiere with the Atlanta Symphony in 2023. He also gave the world premiere of John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto with the Sydney Symphony under the baton of the composer in the Sydney Opera House. He is the soloist on the world premiere and GRAMMY-winning recording of the concerto and City Noir with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony. Other engagements with Adams’ Saxophone Concerto have included the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, where he was only the second saxophonist to appear as soloist in the 120-year history of the Proms in Royal Albert Hall. \nRecent performances include the Spain and Belgium premieres of Guillaume Connesson’s concerto A Kind of Trane led by Stéphane Denève\, recorded with the Brussels Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon. Other notable solo appearances include the Detroit\, Galicia\, Hong Kong\, Houston\, Indianapolis\, Royal Liverpool\, Milwaukee\, São Paulo\, and Mineria (Mexico) symphony orchestras. \nHis multifaceted discography of over 50 albums has been recognized by Mark Stryker of Detroit Free Press as “the top classical saxophone recordings in the industry.” \nIn great demand as an orchestral saxophonist\, he frequently performs in the wind sections of the Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra\, with career highlights including his appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Gustavo Dudamel’s inaugural gala concert performing the world premiere of John Adams’ major work\, City Noir. His reprisal of Adams’ City Noir with the Berlin Philharmonic and Dudamel appears on the composer’s GRAMMY-nominated anthology. \nMcAllister is a member of the PRISM Quartet. PRISM has been presented by Carnegie Hall\, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, and throughout Latin America\, China\, and as soloists with the Detroit Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra. Recipient of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming\, PRISM has commissioned over 300 works by eminent composers\, and The Fifth Century\, PRISM’s recording with The Crossing\, was awarded a GRAMMY for Best Choral Performance. \nMcAllister’s interest in expanding the saxophone repertoire led to Project Encore\, a collaboration with pianist Liz Ames which commissions miniature works for saxophone and piano. Alongside the duo’s efforts to weave an array of influences into their playing\, from modernism to minimalism or popular idioms including Latin\, jazz\, funk\, and musical theater\, their upcoming Project Encore\, Vol. 2 showcases composers including Wynton Marsalis and Jennifer Higdon. \nA dedicated teacher\, McAllister is Professor of Saxophone at the University of Michigan and faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”About Adolphus Hailstork\, composer” tab_id=”1744905387656-fc457999-ccbb”][vc_column_text css=””]Adolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University\, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at the Manhattan School of Music under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond\, at the American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger\, and at Howard University with Mark Fax. \nDr. Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus\, solo voice\, piano\, organ\, various chamber ensembles\, band\, orchestra\, and opera. His second and third symphonies were recorded by the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra (David Lockington) and were released by NAXOS. Another NAXOS recording\, An American Port of Call (Virginia Symphony Orchestra)\, was released in spring 2012. His most recent recording is Piano Concerto No. 1 on NAXOS (2023)\, conducted by JoAnn Falletta. \nDr. Hailstork’s recent pieces include The World Called (based on Rita Dove’s poem\, Testimonial)\, a work for soprano\, chorus and orchestra commissioned by the Oratorio Society of Virginia (premiered in May 2018)\, and Still Holding On (February 2019)\, an orchestral work commissioned and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter became the first movement of his Symphony No. 4\, premiered by the Mannes School of Music on March 8\, 2023. \nOther new works recently receiving notable first performances are A Knee on the Neck (a George Floyd Requiem)\, Blest be the Day (a Juneteenth Overture) premiered by the Baltimore Symphony\, and Piano Concerto No. 2 commissioned by Lara Downes. \nIn 2023\, Dr. Hailstork was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_separator css=””][vc_column_text css=””] \nThis concert is sponsored by the Catherine M. and Paul W. Beltz Fund for Artistic Excellence. \n \nThe BPO Coffee Concert Series is presented by:\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://romantic-cohen.161-35-132-96.plesk.page/event/bernstein-copland/
LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Masterclass with Tim McAllister\, saxophone
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra hosts incredible guest artists each year on our Classics Series. We make many of these masters available to the community in our Masterclass series. These artists will work one-on-one with talented local students in front of a live audience. All events are FREE with a required reservation. \nLearn more about saxophonist Tim McAllister. \nMusically advanced high school and college students are invited to apply as a performer for these classes. All applications require a private instructor’s nomination and an audio recording.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Please send application and recording to rparkinson@bpo.org. \nDEADLINE: May 2\, 2025\nMaterials must be received by this date to be considered. All applicants notified by May 16th.  \nQuestions:\nRobin Parkinson\nVice President\, Education & Community Engagement\n(716) 242-7508 or rparkinson@bpo.org[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_btn title=”Apply Now” color=”primary” size=”lg” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbpo.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F10%2FMC-app_Tim-McAllister.pdf”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://romantic-cohen.161-35-132-96.plesk.page/event/masterclass-with-tim-mcallister-saxophone/
LOCATION:Clement House @ 786 Delaware Ave.\, 786 Delaware Ave.\, Buffalo\, 14209\, United States
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