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: $25 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
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Art History/Borders and Migration Initiative Lecture
Andrea Alvarez, PhD Associate Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1:00 PM Library Learning Center
Join us for an art history lecture concerning the current Narsiso Martinez: From These Hands (De Estas Manos) exhibit at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Organized by Andrea Alvarez, PhD, Associate Curator at the Buffalo AKG, the solo exhibition features a selection of works that exemplify the artist’s unique practice of combining drawing and painting on reclaimed produce boxes. The exhibition will run from December 1, 2023, through April 8, 2024. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Special Event
Buffalo String Works with UB
Christ-the-King Chapel
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.