Center For 21st Century Music

Duo Gelland 
Baird Recital Hall
Tickets: $10, Free to students

This eminent European ensemble turned the 18th century concept of a violin duo into a driving force of contemporary exploration. Cecilia and Martin Gelland revive forgotten gems with historically inspired insight, and in close collaboration with composers, bring new scores to life.

Slee Sinfonietta
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
Tickets: $10, Free to students

Program to feature chamber musicians of the Slee Sinfonietta.

Fonema Consort
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
Tickets: $10, Free to students

Known for their “enthusiastic embrace of daring new music” (Chicago Reader), Fonema Consort commissions, performs, and records new music characterized by deep expressivity that explores the possibilities of the human voice in avant garde chamber settings. This concert features iconic works by eminent guest composer Julio Estrada, Pablo Santiago Chin, and Gabriela Paraskevaídis.

the golden ass, a chamber opera in one act 
by Tiffany Skidmore, featuring the Slee Sinfonietta              
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
Tickets: $10, Free to students

An abstract setting of the Cupid/Psyche myth, this performance features the Slee Sinfonietta under the direction of guest conductor David Cubek; guest artists Nina Dante as Psyche, Alyssa Anderson as Venus, Adam Zahller as Cupid, and Justin Anthony Spenner as Father; as well as a chorus and dance troupe of UB student performers.

Slee Sinfonietta with flutist Carol Wincenc       
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
Tickets: $10, Free to students

The program will feature Su LIan Tan's Autumn Lute Song, Lukas Foss' For Toru, and others.