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Buffalo Chamber Music Society: Quatuor Diotima
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society presents Quatuor Diotima, one of today’s most internationally sought-after string quartets, in a concert that connects the enduring masterpieces of chamber music with some of the most adventurous musical voices of our time.
Formed in 1996 by four graduates of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Quatuor Diotima has built a worldwide reputation for performances of extraordinary precision, imagination, and expressive depth. The ensemble’s name reflects its artistic mission: a reference both to the Romantic world of Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion and to Luigi Nono’s groundbreaking Fragmente–Stille, an Diotima—a work central to the quartet’s commitment to modern and contemporary music.
Quatuor Diotima has worked closely with important composers including Pierre Boulez and Helmut Lachenmann, and has commissioned and premiered works by leading contemporary composers such as Toshio Hosokawa, Rebecca Saunders, Tristan Murail, Miroslav Srnka, Alberto Posadas, Misato Mochizuki, and Mauro Lanza. At the same time, the ensemble brings fresh insight to the great works of Beethoven, Schubert, Janáček, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.
The quartet’s acclaimed recordings reflect this wide-ranging artistic vision. Its 2023 Ligeti album was described by Gramophone as a recording that “should become the go-to Ligeti string quartets disc for the foreseeable future,” while subsequent releases devoted to Bruckner, Klose, and Boulez received major European recording honors. The ensemble’s forthcoming releases include projects devoted to Lachenmann, Mochizuki, Saariaho, and Beethoven’s late string quartets.
With appearances at major venues and festivals around the world—including London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, and Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées—Quatuor Diotima brings an exceptional international perspective to Buffalo. Join BCMS for an intimate, illuminating evening with four musicians who reveal the string quartet as a living art form: rooted in tradition, open to discovery, and continually being reinvented.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3785028-0
