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FREE RECITAL BY PRIZE-WINNING CLARINETIST

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Contributed by: Buffalo Chamber Music Society on 10/12/2008

What:	NEXT › ‹ PREVIOUS THE BUFFALO CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY PRESENTS ITS SECOND FREE GIFT TO THE COMMUNITY RECITAL OF THE 2008/09 SEASON As part of its Gift to the Community Recital series, free concerts featuring internationally renowned young musicians, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society presents clarinetist JOSE FRANCH-BALLESTER Sunday, October 26 at 3 pm, in Kleinhans Music Hall's Mary Seaton Room. Winner of a coveted 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant, JOSE FRANCH-BALLESTER has been called "that rare find, an artist whose brilliant mastery of his instrument is matched by sound and secure gifts as a musician," by The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana), and The New York Sun raved, "Young Concert Artists has a winner!" Mr. Franch-Ballester's 2008-2009 season includes appearances as soloist with the Victoria and Wichita Falls symphonies in Texas, and recitals with Asociacion Nacional de Conciertos in Panama, Pace University (NY), Iowa State University, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (CA), Fox Hill Village, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (NY). In December 2007, he was selected for Carnegie Hall's Professional Training Workshop with Emanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman, which concluded with a performance in Carnegie's Weill Hall. Mr. Franch-Ballester won First Prize in the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He was also awarded the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize, which sponsored his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center, and the Claire Tow Prize, which sponsored his New York debut at the 92nd Street Y. This concert is free. No tickets are needed. For more information call 716-462-4939 or log on to www.bflochambermusic.org. PROGRAM Fantasy on themes from Verdi's Rigoletto LUIGI BASSI Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 120. No. 2 JOHANNES BRAHMS Sonata in D Major, Op. 94 SERGEI PROKOFIEV Sonata for clarinet and piano FRANCIS POULENC
Where:	MARY SEATON ROOM - KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL
When:	3 P.M. - 5 P.M.
Event Dates:	This event takes place on 10/26/2008.