Today the Buffalo AKG Art Museum announced the return of the Buffalo Chamber Players at the AKG. Experience creative music programs performed by our region’s finest performers in a unique and inspiring setting. 

As Buffalo’s preeminent chamber music ensemble, the Buffalo Chamber Players presents innovative music programs performed by our region’s finest musicians. The group’s mission is to challenge, redefine, and enhance the public’s perception of chamber music while promoting the city of Buffalo as an inspiring place to live, work, and play.

Formed in 2007 by Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra violist Janz Castelo de Armas, the group comprises members of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and other distinguished area musicians. The group’s critically acclaimed concerts explore both historical chamber music masterworks and works by living composers.

Tickets

Season subscription: $110
AKG member season subscription: $90
General admission (single concert): $40
AKG member (single concert) $35

Visit buffaloakg.org/buffalochamberplayers to purchase tickets.
 

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Thursday, November 16, 2023
7 pm
Sixteen Candles

Join the Buffalo Chamber Players in their return to the AKG! The opening program looks back at the ensemble’s sixteen-year history and explores trends shaping chamber music today. The concert includes Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, written in 1825 when the composer was just sixteen years old, presented alongside works created in the past sixteen years.

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Thursday, February 29, 2024
7 pm
Just the Two of Us

A duet is the smallest unit of collaborative music and the most intimate form of musicmaking. Revel in a program celebrating music for two in common and unusual instrumental pairings.  

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Thursday, April 11, 2024
7 pm
Northern Exposure

Experience composers from the Nordic Region, both historic and contemporary, and their close connection to nature, the environment, and the human condition.

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Thursday, May 16, 2024
7 pm
Purple Rain

Joan Tower’s Purple Rain (2020) for string quintet belongs to the composer’s series of “purple” works featuring the viola. Tower, who experiences synesthesia, explains that “purple is the color—in all its various hues—that most reminds me of the viola. In this quintet, ‘rain’ symbolizes many things: a steady repetition of light and heavy rhythms, flows of ‘held’ singing (particularly in the viola duets), and a kind of rapid ‘cascading/rolling’ in rivulets of sixteenth notes.”

Tower’s Purple Rain is paired with Johannes Brahms’s String Quintet No.2 in G Major, Op. 111, which uses the same instrumentation (two violins, two violas, and cello).

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The Buffalo Chamber Players at the AKG is generously supported by David and Eva Herer.
 

About the Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Founded in 1862, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) is the sixth-oldest public art institution in the United States. For more than 160 years, the Buffalo AKG has collected, conserved, and exhibited the art of its time, often working directly with living artists. This tradition has given rise to one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of modern and contemporary art.
 
In summer 2023, following the completion of the most significant campus development and expansion project in its history, the BuffaloAKG opened anew to the public. The project is funded by a $230 million capital campaign, the largest such campaign for a cultural institution in the history of Western New York, including $195 million raised for construction and $35 million in additional operating endowment funds.

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