ELLICOTTVILLE — The next generation of musicians in the Ieda family will perform a free concert Friday evening at 6932 Horn Hill Road.

A potluck dinner will begin at 6 p.m., and the concert will begin after dinner at around 7 o’clock. Admission is free, but a reservation is required.

The Ieda family — Annette, James, Anneke, Victoria and Martin — will perform a selection of Classical pieces by the likes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms and more. Annette Ieda, as a member of the Salamanca Euterpean Music Club, will be fulfilling her membership obligation at the concert by playing violin with her oldest son’s family in a horn concerto featuring Victoria.

Euterpean members are the honored guests, but an open invitation is also extended to the friends of the family and the local community of classical music lovers. The only requirement for attendance at this event is a call to Annette at (716) 912-3512 to reserve your spot.

Annette and Jim Ieda retired from teaching music at Lake Shore Central Schools in 2002, leaving their lake property in Angola to teach snowboarding at Holiday Valley and build their retirement dream house on Horn Hill Road.

Once in the community of Ellicottville, they also became enmeshed in the music ministry at Holy Name of Mary Church, where Annette became the organist and Jim the choir director. When Jim died in 2019, Annette continued as the full-time music minister, directing the choir and playing the organ.

The Iedas introduced their children to music at the age of 3, enrolling them in the Buffalo Suzuki String Program. Their oldest son, James, became a violinist, a career which he continues today. He is the elementary string teacher in Clarence, concert master of the Southern Tier Symphony, and an active freelance musician in the Buffalo area. James’s wife, Anneke, is the orchestra director at Williamsville East High School and keeps busy by serving as music librarian for several orchestras.

James and Anneke’s daughter, Victoria, currently a senior at Clarence High School, will be pursuing a performance degree in French Horn at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio next fall, after spending time at the Tanglewood Institute for horn this summer. Their son, Martin, a sophomore at Clarence High School, also enjoys hunting and diving.

Victoria is a horn student of BPO principal horn Jacek Muzyk and BPO violinist Andrea Blanchard Cone. Martin is a cello student of Dr. Natasha Farny of SUNY Fredonia. This family has been performing together on Horn Hill Road for over 10 years.

Annette and Jim Ieda’s second son, Christopher, was the family cellist and started playing at the age of 2. His first instrument was an upside-down viola with an end pin so he could play it like a cello.

Annette practiced with her children for 10 years to get them off to a good start. When they were still in grammar school, the family was able to play chamber music together — Jim on piano, Annette on viola, James on violin and Chris on the cello. The boys and their parents eventually formed a piano quartet, which continued for 25 years. The family gave many concerts in Western New York and even in Canada.

Chris also became a string teacher, and so both boys carried this musical tradition on to their families, enrolling their children in Suzuki String Programs and practicing with them daily.

Because Anneke is a violist, James’s family formed a string quartet where all of them could play together. During the coronavirus pandemic, they gave concerts in their driveway for the neighborhood.

Both Christopher’s and Jim’s families have performed with Jim Sr. and Annette at their annual Chamber Concert called “The Ieda Family Players.” The adult children would play piano quartets (violin, viola, cello and piano) with their parents, and the young grandchildren would play solos. This all stopped after the death of Jim Sr. in 2019, and now the new generation will continue.

Annette wanted a chance to feature the younger Iedas one more time before her oldest grandchild, Victoria, went off to college. The grandchildren will be the solo featured artists, but the entire family will be engaged in some group selections.

The concert’s program includes:

• Horn Quintet in Eb K. 407 by W. A. Mozart featuring Victoria Ieda on horn

• Cello Sonata in e minor by Johannes Brahms featuring Martin Ieda on cello

• Concerto No. 2 in D minor by Henryk Wieniawski featuring Victoria Ieda on violin

The family will perform two additional selections as a string quartet, including a folk tune arranged by the “Danish String Quartet.”