Buffalo Chamber Music Society concert to feature clarinetist Narek Arutyunian

PanARMENIAN.Net - One of the benefits provided to the classical music lovers of Western New York by the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, in addition to their very long-running evening series, is the society’s free annual, three-concert Gift to the Community series presented on Sunday afternoons, Art Voice reports.

The second installment in this season’s series takes place this Sunday, November 13 at 3pm, and features the Armenian clarinetist Narek Arutyunian, accompanied by pianist Steven Beck, in a performance re-scheduled from last season due to a family death.

The 18-year-old clarinetist, who won first prize in the prestigious 2010 Young Artists International Auditions competition, will perform works by Weber, Poulenc, Francaix, Horovitz, Denisov, and Schoenfield. As anyone who was at pianist Benjamin Moser’s recital last September can happily attest, the artistic quality and the musicianship of the young performers in this series generally combine for a concert experience that is hard to beat.

The series has provided a venue for some of the rising stars of tomorrow, exemplified best, perhaps, by the appearance a couple of years ago of the Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, who went on to win the coveted first prize gold medal in this year’s International Tchaikovsky Competition, and who will be making a return visit to Buffalo on May 15, in the final season concert of the Ramsi P. Tick series at the Flickinger Performing Arts Center at Nichols School.