07/26/2026
The Friends of Vienna is pleased to announce their fiftieth season with a wonderful line-up of concerts:
Sunday September 13 – Vocalist Alex McArthur and UB pianist George Caldwell perform jazz, blues and pop. This is your chance to hear Alex before she headlines the Opening BPO Pops concert! (to be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church)
Sunday October 18 – Simon Housner, BPO cellist, Andrew Lin, violinist and Robert Donowick, violist, with Julliard School pianist Jarod Yap in a program featuring Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata and Faure’s Piano Quartet No. 1.
Sunday November 8 – Violinist Isabel Ong, cellist Natasha Farny, and pianist Eliran Avni, faculty members of the Fredonia School of Music present “Ladies First,’ a program of rediscovered piano trio gems by the 19th century French composer, Louise Farrenc and British composer and suffragette, Ethel Smyth along with contemporary Chicagoan composer Stacy Garrop, and a movement from a Brahms’ piano trio.
Sunday March 21 – Karen Schmid, UB Dept. of Music fortepianist with Holly Bewlay, Buffalo State University soprano. Featured are works by Beethoven and Schubert played on the fortepiano, Haydn’s ‘Arianna a Naxos’ for soprano and fortepiano, along with a selection of Haydn’s songs.
Sunday April 11 – BPO Principal Oboe, Henry Ward, BPO cellist, Amelie Fradette, BPO contrabassoonist, Natalya Rose Vrbsky, BPO violinist Mari Nihira Jones, and Abigail Rockwood, piano in works by Telemann, Boismortier, Bixet, Poulenc, and Martinu.
Sunday May 16 – BPO Assistant Concertmaster Anton Shelepov, violin with Irina Shelepov, harp.
Individual ticket prices are $20. Season tickets are just $80, a savings of more than 30% over the individual admission prices.
