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Pacifica String Quartet Concert

May 5, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Free
Pacifica String Quartet

Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices, over the past two decades the Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. Named the quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in March 2012, the Pacifica was previously the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and received a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. In 2017, the Pacifica Quartet was appointed to lead the Center for Advanced Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School. 

The Pacifica Quartet has carved a niche for itself as the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, harnessing the group’s singular focus and incredible stamina to portray each composer’s evolution, often over the course of just a few days. Having given highly acclaimed performances of the complete Carter cycle in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Houston; the Mendelssohn cycle in Napa, Australia, New York, and Pittsburgh; and the Beethoven cycle in New York, Denver, St. Paul, Chicago, Napa, and Tokyo (in an unprecedented presentation of five concerts in three days at Suntory Hall), the Quartet presented the monumental Shostakovich cycle in Chicago, New York, Montreal and at London’s Wigmore Hall. The Quartet has been widely praised for these cycles, with critics calling the concerts “brilliant,” “astonishing,” “gripping,” and “breathtaking.”

A complimentary wine reception follows the event.

The program for the Pacifica Quartet will include the following pieces:

Shostakovich: Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68

Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1, “Razumovsky”

Watch the quartet perform Beethoven.

 

Details

Date:
May 5, 2019
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
www.barringtonswhitehous.com

Organizer

Barrington Cultural Commission
Phone
224-512-4066
Email
bwhcc@barrington-il.gov

Other

Price
$40

Venue

Barrington’s White House
145 West Main Street
Barrington, IL 60010 US
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