June in Buffalo 2026 Schedule

The 2026 Festival schedule is here! Only 12 days until the festival begins! 

Please note that all JiB events are free of admissions. 

 

Monday, June 1

 

Open Rehearsals: Lippes Concert Hall

When attending an open rehearsal, please enter and exit discreetly and maintain silence.

1:45-2:50 Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Like a Scattering from a Fixed Point

3:10-4:15 David Fulmer, Autumn Light

Composer lecture: Baird Recital Hall (250 Baird Hall), 4-6pm

Jason Thorpe Buchanan

with Tyler J. Borden, cello (Like a Scattering from a Fixed Point, cello soloist)

Opening concert: Baird Recital Hall, 7:30pm

Participant composers perform their original solo works. 

Tuesday, June 2

 

Composer lecture: Baird Recital Hall, 4-6pm

Christian Baldini

with Isabel Ong, violin (Whimsical Spheres for solo violin)

  

Evening concert: Lippes Concert Hall, 7:30pm

Slee Sinfonietta Program #1

All works conducted by their composers.

Tyler J. Borden, cello soloist

Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano soloist

Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Like a Scattering from a Fixed Point (2025)

Manel Paret, O, the unknown, I cry for thee

HsinYi Lisa Tseng, Chapter 1

Jinxin Fu What is Poetry?

Zachary Blakeslee Reid, io

David Fulmer, Autumn Light (2023-25)

Wednesday, June 3

 

Afternoon Concert: Baird Recital Hall, 4pm

Chamber and Solo Works #1

JiB Composers 

Maze Drum, Movements 2 and 3 from String Quartet no.1

Isaac Barzso, Ended still then (glacial erratic) for cello

David Dzubay, Delicious Silence for violin

David Fulmer, Verlöschend (Part 3 – On Night) for soprano saxophone

Evening concert: Baird Recital Hall, 7:30pm

Participant composers perform their original solo works. 

Thursday, June 4

 

Open Rehearsals: Lippes Concert Hall

When attending an open rehearsal, please enter and exit discreetly and maintain silence.

12:45-1:35 Ziyi Tao, Spring, and Autumn, or Tautology and Simultaneity

1:35-2:25 Jiaqi Wang, Ephemeral Existence

2:25-2:45 break

2:45-3:15 Guang Yang, Drop then fade

Composer lecture: Baird Recital Hall, 4-6pm

David Fulmer

with Susan Fancher, saxophone (Verlöschend, Part 3 – On Night, for solo soprano saxophone)

 

Evening concert: Lippes Concert Hall, 7:30pm

Slee Sinfonietta Program #2

All works conducted by their composers, except where noted.

Ziyi Tao, Spring, and Autumn, or Tautology and Simultaneity

Ziyi Tao and David Dzubay, conductors

Christian Baldini, As if Making a Confession

Guang Yang, Drop then fade

Jiaqi Wang, Ephemeral Existence

David Dzubay, PHO (2018)

Friday, June 5

 

Composer lecture: Baird Recital Hall, 4-6pm

David Dzubay

with Shannon Reilly, violin (Delicious Silence for solo violin)

 

Evening concert: B1 Baird Hall, 7:30pm

Composer’s Cabaret Improvisation Ensemble

JiB participant composers present the results of their late-night improvised encounters in an informal, spontaneous and uncurated setting! 

 

Saturday, June 6

Open Rehearsals: Lippes Concert Hall

When attending an open rehearsal, please enter and exit discreetly and maintain silence.

11:05-12:00 Gabriel Fynsk, a barely suppressed hysteria

1:15-2:30 Nathaniel Otley, of light and smoke emitting forth in the night

2:30-2:50 break

2:50-3:45 Camden Boyle, Ideas of Utopia

Composer lecture: Baird Recital Hall, 4-6pm

Ming Tsao

with a screening of short films relating to his work Refuse Collection

 

Evening Concert: Baird Recital Hall, 7:30 pm 

Solo and Chamber Works #2 

William Lang, trombone

Jonathan Golove, theremin cello 

 

Jonathan Golove, The Dream of Radio (2026)

Endong Li, The Voyage of Dream

Iannis Xenakis, Keren (1986) 

Marti Epstien, Abluvion (2022)

B.K. Zervignon, Past Forgot (2026) 

Sunday, June 7

Closing concert:  Lippes Concert Hall, 3pm

Slee Sinfonietta Program #3

All works conducted by their composers, except where noted.

Ming Tsao, Refuse Collection

David Dzubay, conductor

Camden Boyle, Ideas of Utopia

Gabriel Fynsk, a barely suppressed hysteria

Nathaniel Otley, of light and smoke emitting forth in the night

Oliver Dubon, 90

 

Reception to follow the concert

We look forward to seeing you during the festival!