Graduate Composers participate in masterclasses with all visiting composers in which
student works are presented and discussed. In addition to these guests,
the Music Department hosts a regular lecture series in which leading
research theorists and musicologists present their findings in
Department-wide Colloquia.
- Simon
Bainbridge
- Virko
Baley
- Martin
Brody
- Frank
Cox
- Stephen
Dembski
- Lukas
Foss
- Ge Ganru
- Carlo
Alessandro Landini
- Paul Lansky
- Alvin
Lucier
- Philipe
Manoury
- Donald
Martino
- Stephen
Montague
- Jeffrey
Mumford
- Tristan
Murail
- Gerard
Pape
- Olivier Pasquet
- Andrew
Rindfleisch
- Jared
Sacks, record producer
- Harvey Sollberger
- Zachary
Settel
- Les Stuck
- Ben Thigpen
- Charles
Wuorinen
The Music Department is privileged to host some of the world's finest
contemporary music interpreters. In addition to a thriving
contemporary music performance calendar at Slee Concert Hall and Baird
Recital Hall, visiting performers often participate in brief residencies
including masterclasses for composers and performers and readings and/or
performances of
Graduate Composers' works.
- Magnus
Andersson, guitar
- Arditti
String Quartet
- Tony Arnold, voice
- Pierre-Yves
Artaud, flutes
- Robert
Black, double bass
- Sebastian Berweck, piano
- Kevin
Bowyer, organ
- Geoffrey
Burleson, piano
- California
EAR Unit
- Corrado
Canonici, double bass
- Champs
d'Action
- Marc
Couroux, piano
- Frank Cox, cello
- Gareth
Davis Trio (Clarinets, Cello, Piano)
- Robert
Dick, flutes
- Mark Dresser, bass
- Stephen
Drury, piano
- eighth
blackbird
- Ensemble
InterContemporain
- Ensemble SurPlus
- Hans-Ola
Erikkson, organ
- Alan Feinberg,
piano
- Ken Filiano,
double bass
- Vinny
Golia, multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser
- Edwin
Harkins, trumpet
- Martha
Herr, soprano
- ICE Ensemble
- Ives String
Quartet
- Jin Hi Kim, komungo player and composer
- Garth Knox, viola and viola d'amore
- Maelstrom
Percussion Quartet
- Elizabeth
McNutt, flutes
- Neidhofer-Vishio
Piano Duo
- NEXUS
Percussion Ensemble
- New York New Music Ensemble
- Ursula
Oppens, piano
- Ian
Pace, piano
- Quator Bozzini
- Quator Diotima
- David
Quiggle, viola
- David
Rokeby, Very Nervous System
- Harry
Sparnaay, bass clarinet
- Maria
Tegzes, soprano
- New York Trumpet Ensemble
- Fred Sherry, cello
- Les Thimmig,
multi-reed performer and composer
- Trio Phoenix
- Dave Taylor, trombone
- Alain
Trudel, trombone
- Matthias
Ziegler, flutes
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In addition to guests during the academic
year, UB Graduate Composers often participate in the June in Buffalo
Festival, offering further opportunities to work with world-renowned
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All visiting composers, performers,
ensembles, and lecturers are sponsored by the Birge-Cary Chair in Music,
the Dean's Office, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Music Department
General Fund and Music Lecture Series.
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