All dates, times, artists and programs are subject to change.
Location Key:
MCC -- Montante Cultural Center
CKC -- Christ the King Chapel
Regis -- Regis Room, Winter Student Center
KMH -- Kleinhans Music Hall
Library -- Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library
SC – Science Hall
Events By Category:
Meet The Faculty
This series features members of the Canisius Fine Arts Department faculty in recitals, lectures and art exhibits.
Monday March 18, 2024
Meet the Musicians Recital Series
Tiffany Nicely and Diaspora Drumming
Student Events
Opportunities abound for Canisius students to perform. This series features the Canisius University chorale, orchestra, and jazz ensembles in concert, as well as solo performances by Canisius students.
Friday, November 22, 2024
Student Event
Jazz Ensemble, Russell Scarbrough director
7:30 PM Montante Cultural Center
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Student Event
Canisius University Chamber Orchestra, Ansgarius Aylward, director
7:30 PM Montante Cultural Center
Monday, December 2, 2024
Student Event
Canisius University Chorale, Bradley Wingert, director
7:30 PM Montante Cultural Center
Friday, March 1, 2024
Festival of the Ensembles
Jazz Ensemble, Russell Scarbrough director
Canisius College Chorale, Bradley Wingert, director
Canisius College Orchestra, Ansgarius Aylward, director
7:30 PM Montante Cultural Center
$5.00 general admission
Friday, April 26, 2024
Jazz Ensemble, Russell Scarbrough director
7:30 PM Montante Cultural Center
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Canisius College Orchestra, Ansgarius Aylward, director
7:30 PM Montante Cultural Center
Monday, April 29, 2024
Canisius University Chorale, Bradley Wingert, director
7:30 PM Christ-the-King Chapel
Special Events
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Special Event
A Musical Feast Follow your Bliss - Shared Sounds
4:00 PM Montante Cultural Center
Tickets: $20 general, $15 seniors, $5 students, faculty and staff
A Musical Feast will open its 19th Season of innovative programming with a gala performance entitled, “Follow Your Bliss – Shared Sounds”.
Long time WNED radio host and current co-host of “Theater Talk” on WBFO Peter Hall will open the program by introducing SUNY Distinguished Professor Emerita, Ann C. Colley, as she presents her work, “Down to the Seas Again”, a video with narration that captures the rich soundscape of her solitary walks along the English seaside around East Anglia and interweaving the crashing waters with the music of Benjamin Britten.
UB Professor Jonathan Golove will amplify these themes with a performance of Britten’s FUGA from his first suite for solo cello. Originally written for cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the FUGA expresses many Russian folk themes with an unmistakable nod to the seashore of Britten’s East Anglian home.
UB Professors Jonathan Golove and Tiffany DuMouchelle, will present “Changing Light” by Kaija Saariaho for cello and soprano.
Bringing the first half of the concert to a close, world renown artists, violinist Charles Castleman, and pianist Claudia Hoca, will team up to present the Rondo Brilliant for piano and violin by Franz Schubert. Castleman and Hoca are both known to Buffalo audiences for their many noteworthy appearances with A Musical Feast and in venues both nationally and internationally.
The concert will come to a close with a performance of Julius Eastman’s “Gay Guerilla”. Percussionist, Stephen Solook, has reworked the piece for vibraphone with loop pedal maintaining its essentially minimalist character but with a richer sound. Mr. Solook is a new music specialist based in Buffalo where he teaches at Buffalo State University.
Since its founding in 2006 by Irene and Charles Haupt, A Musical Feast has continued its long tradition as Buffalo’s centerpiece for performances by top national and international artists with its signature blend combining music with art, literature, dance, and theater. “Follow Your Bliss – Shared Sounds” will surely be the jewel in the crown of that history
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Special Event
Tango Nocturna
7:00 PM Montante Cultural Center
Tickets: $20 general, $10 seniors, faculty and staff, $5 students
Friday, October 4, 2024
Special Event
Shakespeare in Delaware Park and Raíces Theater Company
Shakespeare and the Spanish Golden Age
4:00 PM Montante Cultural Center
Free Will Offering
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Special Event
Buffalo Silver Band
7:30 PM Montante Cultural Center
Free Will Offering
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Special Event
A Musical Feast- The Two Sides of Sax
7:30 PM Montante Cultural Center
Tickets: $25 general, $15 seniors, $5 students, faculty and staff
Saxophone and Jazz royalty will descend on the Montante Cultural Center at Canisius University on Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 7:30pm when ArtsCanisius and A Musical Feast present “The Two Sides of Sax.”
Long associated with jazz and folk music, the saxophone has a history of great versatility and range that reaches beyond these genres. The first half of the program presents a collection of pieces from the “classical” side of the saxophone repertoire. From the 1700s, a piece called “Duo Sonata” TWV 40:102 by Telemann and Max Bruchs’, “Romanza” from the early 1800s will bookend the presentation of a trio of pieces by Dutch composers of the 2020s. Capping the first half will be a surprise new discovery from the SUNY Fredonia Sigurd Rascher Archive entitled “Satyrs’ Dance” from 1936.
The performers for these pieces are themselves royalty. Sander Beumer and Hans van Ham are Dutch musicians who make up Duo Beumer van Ham. Saxophonist Sander Beumer and pianist Hans van Ham represent the Utrecht Conservatoire and specialize in French saxophone repertoire. Wildy Zumwalt, Professor of Music at SUNY Fredonia who is a scholar of early German saxophone repertoire and his colleague at Fredonia, Elliot Scozzaro, a former award winner with the Eastman Youth Orchestra in Rochester will round out the first half. Elliot Scozzaro is himself an acclaimed arranger and composer who will be one of the featured players in the second half.
On the “Jazz” side of the saxophone repertoire, the second half of the program will feature free-wheeling improvisation, joining Buffalo native and Shirmer prize winner from Eastman School of Music, Stephen Parisi on bass. In addition to numerous awards, in 2022, Stephen’s noteworthy composition work led to the prestigious award of a Statewide Community Regrant by Arts Services Inc. and the New York State Council on the Arts for the premiere of his project “Sounds of Buffalo: A Series of Compositions and Arrangements for Tentet.”
Rounding out this impressive group of talented musicians is world-renown jazz pianist, George Caldwell. Hailing from Clarksdale, Mississippi, George is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and has played with such jazz luminaries as Clifford Jordan and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. George was featured along with David “Panama” Francis at the legendary Rainbow Room in Manhattan before playing with the Count Basie Orchestra where he shared the bandstand with some of the true greats of the jazz world including Quincy Jones, Roy Hargrove, George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie and Cab Calloway.
Art Exhibits
Sarah Tulin: Charismatic Fauna: A Retrospective
September 5 - October 11: Opening Reception September 6
This exhibit is a collection of oil paintings created by Canisius Associate Professor Sarah Tulin while she was a high school student. During this time, her work was inspired by her teacher, Pat Carr, who taught her how to capture colors, shadows, and reflections.
Barb Chaudhry: Eye of the Beholder
October 21-December 13 Opening Reception October 25
Eye of the Beholder is a dynamic survey of paintings by western New York artist Barbara Chaudhry. After a career path that included work as a medical illustrator and stained glass artist, this new member of The Buffalo Society of Artists has retired and is back to the painting that she loves.