The Ensemble Plays Two Concerts, Oct 8 and Oct 9

By Frank Housh

The Buffalo Chamber Music Society is 101 years old, but it doesn’t look a day over a century. The historic, BCMS season begins next week with two concerts by the Isidore String Quartet.

The four young musicians in the Isidore String Quartet derive their name from Isidore Cohen, the legendary violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet. The New York City based ensemble is having a moment, as they just won a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition (2022).

The Isidore appears at Kleinhans Music Hall’s Mary Seaton Room in Kleinhans Music Hall on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:30PM. They will perform Mozart’s String Quartet in C major, K.465, Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la Nuit (Thus the Night) (1977), and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in Eb major, Op. 44, No.3.

The Isidore Quartet continues their Buffalo engagement with a different program the following night, 7:30PM, Wednesday, October 9 at UB’s Lippes Concert Hall. That performance will include Ravel’s String Quartet in F major, Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet (1931), Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet, and Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2.

Look for Managing Editor Frank Housh’s review of the October 9 concert at Lippes Hall.

You can find more information about the Isidore String Quartet’s Buffalo performances and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society here.