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Buffalo Chamber Music Society: Brentano Quartet
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society presents the Brentano String Quartet, one of the world’s most revered chamber ensembles, in a performance showcasing the warmth, insight, and extraordinary collaborative spirit of four master musicians.
For more than three decades, the Brentano Quartet has appeared at leading venues and festivals around the world, earning acclaim for its distinctive musical voice. The New York Times praises the ensemble’s “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism,” while The Times of London celebrates its “wonderful, selfless music-making.” Known for probing interpretations and imaginative programming, the quartet brings remarkable clarity, depth, and immediacy to the string-quartet repertoire.
Formed in 1992, the Brentano Quartet includes violinists Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, violist Misha Amory, and cellist Nina Lee. The ensemble earned both the prestigious Naumburg and Cleveland Quartet Awards in 1995 and has since performed across five continents. Its members are widely respected performers and teachers, serving as Artists-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music and leading the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival; the quartet previously held a 15-year residency at Princeton University.
The Brentano Quartet is equally admired for its commitment to the great masterpieces of the past and to music of the present. Recent projects include Haydn’s complete Op. 33 quartets, the program Evocations of Home—including a new work by Lei Liang honoring composer Chou Wen-chung—and collaborations with soprano Dawn Upshaw, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, and pianist Mitsuko Uchida. The ensemble has also commissioned works by leading composers including Matthew Aucoin, Gabriela Frank, Vijay Iyer, Steven Mackey, and Charles Wuorinen.
The quartet’s recordings include Beethoven’s String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, featured in the 2012 film A Late Quartet, and Into the Fire—Live from Wigmore Hall with Joyce DiDonato. Named for Antonie Brentano, widely believed to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” the ensemble brings both a deep connection to tradition and a continually fresh perspective to every performance.
Join BCMS for an unforgettable evening of live chamber music with a quartet celebrated for turning four individual voices into a single, profoundly expressive musical conversation.
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