CONCERTS & TICKETS
2022-2023 SEASON CONCERTS
All performances in-person only
HUB NEW MUSIC
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2023, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Hub New Music is a Boston-based ensemble forging new paths in 21st century music. The Boston Globe called its four innovative members (on violin, cello, flute, and clarinet) “contemporary chamber trailblazers.” Their program includes a piece they commissioned from Daniel Thomas Davis—a world premiere. How cutting-edge is that!.
Nathalie Joachim: They Found Me in Pieces
Angélica Negrón: New Work for Hub New Music
Daniel Thomas Davis: What If We're Beautiful—world premiere
James Diaz: Lines on Acid Dreams
Michael Ippolito: Capriccio
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Buy tickets to this concert. (Full-time students free)
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FRAUTSCHI-MANASSE-NAKAMATSU TRIO
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2023, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Sponsored by Andrew Russo
Van Cliburn gold-medal winner and CNY favorite Jon Nakamatsu will be joined by two other enormously gifted musicians: violinist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Jennifer Frautschi, and Jon Manasse, called by the New York Times an “absolutely first rate clarinet soloist.” We will enjoy their artistry in several combinations: solo, duo, and trio.
Milhaud: Suite for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, op.157b
Weber: Grand Duo Concertante for Clarinet and Piano
Chopin: Fantasie in F Minor, op. 49
Bartók: Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Photo: Clay Larsen
PACIFICA QUARTET with ANTHONY MCGILL
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
The celebrated Pacifica Quartet returns for its sixth SFCM concert, joined by New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill. Their program of "American Stories" will include music by three African American composers. Dvořák’s "American" quartet was written while the composer was in the United States, and may well reflect the Negro Spirituals he so much appreciated.
James Lee III: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet
Dvořák: String Quartet no. 12, op. 96, “American”
Florence Price: String Quartet in G major: Andante
Valerie Coleman: Shot Gun Houses
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MANHATTAN CHAMBER PLAYERS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2023, 7:30 PM
We open with a string sextet drawn from the Manhattan Chamber players, whose roster comprises some of New York City's finest musicians. The most sought-after solo and chamber performers of their generation, its members find joy in playing with friends and colleagues they've known for years. The result is a "mellifluous blend of vigorous intensity." Classical Source
Photo: Sophie Zhai
DUBLIN GUITAR QUARTET
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023, 2:00 PM
"A quartet with a difference" said the Irish Times, and that difference is these Dubliners' unique devotion to performing contemporary music. With the help of their eight and eleven string guitars, they create, "a near orchestral palette of sound backed up by hall-filling power." Washington Post. SFCM chose them to perform a new commissioned work in 2016. It is a pleasure to have them back again.
DANISH STRING QUARTET
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2023, 7:30 PM
Sponsored by Dr. Joseph W. Flanagan, M.D.
"I've been trying to snag this group for years," says SFCM Music Programmer Travis Newton of these three Danes (plus a Swedish cellist) who have been playing football and chamber music together since their student days. Named "Ensemble of the Year" in 2019 by Musical America, the DSQ were part of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society for three seasons. "Nobody could have prepared me for the tornado of energy the quartet unleashed...The players seemed to dance in their seats." Boston Globe
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MIDWINTER CONCERT: TRIOS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2024, 7:30 PM
We are planning a program of trios, to be performed by some of Central New York's finest musicians.
ATOS TRIO
SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2024, 7:30 PM
When violinist Annette von Hehn, pianist Thomas Hoppe, and cellos Stefan Heinemeyer formed a trio in Berlin in 2002, they bonded together so closely that they chose an acronym of their names as the group's title. Two decades of triumph on the world's concert stages have only intensified this artistic unity. "Three voices--one sound: it's the absolutely perfect unity of phrasing, sound, feel, and interpretation that distinguished the ATOS from all others." Detroit Free Press
WINDSYNC
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024, 7:30 PM
The lively musicians of this Houston-based group strive for immediacy with their audience by playing all their repertoire--wind quintet classics and adaptations of other beloved music--from memory. "Staunchly dedicated to pushing the boundaries...with youthful, pop-rock sensibility." Winnipeg Free Press
AMERICAN STRING QUARTET
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024, 7:30 PM
We welcome back the American, surely one of the finest string quartets performing today, during their 50th anniversary season. Over the years, the ASQ has performed world-wide and recorded the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Bartok. Their complete Mozart String Quartets, performed on a matched set of instruments by Stradivarius, is considered the gold standard. "Luxurious, beautifully sculptured performances." New Yorker
Photo: Peter Schaaf
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