Over the past two decades the Pacifica Quartet has gained international stature as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. The Pacifica Quartet tours extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia, performing regularly in the world's major concert halls. Named the quartet-in-residence at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in March 2012, the Pacifica Quartet was also the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009 - 2012) - a position that has otherwise been held only by the Guarneri String Quartet - and received the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.
Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet quickly won chamber music's top competitions, including the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In 2002 the ensemble was honored with Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award and the appointment to Lincoln Center's CMS Two, and in 2006 was awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, becoming only the second chamber ensemble so honored in the Grant's long history. And in 2009, the Quartet was named "Ensemble of the Year" by Musical America.
In this performance, the Pacifica Quartet returns with a program featuring Pulitzer Prizewinner Shulamit Ran's acclaimed third string quartet. Written for these standard-bearers of the new American canon, Ran's work is inspired by the deeply moving works of artist Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), who died at Auschwitz. This specific performance at the Herbst Theatre will be the West Coast Premiere of Ms Ran's third string quartet.
The program will include:
MOZART: Quartet in F Major, K. 590 SHULAMIT RAN: Glitter, Shards, Doom, Memory [WEST COAST PREMIERE] MENDELSSOHN: Quartet in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2
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