STOCKTON — The Pacifica Quartet is performing Sunday, Feb. 8, at 2:30 p.m. at the Faye Spanos Concert Hall at the University of the Pacific.
Comcert tickets are $25 and are available in the lobby of Faye Spanos Concert Hall at UOP starting at 2p.m., 30 minutes before the concert on Feb. 8 or on at the website www.chambermusicfriends.org. Students of any age are admitted free with ID.
Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in cooperation with Pacific and its Conservatory of Music and the Season Sponsor, The Webster Foundation. For a brochure or more information about the FOCM annual series, please call 209.-956.2858 or visit www.chambermusicfriends.org.
The first thing that strikes a listener about the Pacifica is its sound. Each instrument has an individual personality, uncannily tuned to one another to blend seamlessly. At times the four musicians can sound as full as a string orchestra. Intonation is never a problem. Neither is emotional impact. Passion seems to be as critical as intonation. (Chicago Sun Times)
Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices, over the past two decades the Pacifica Quartet has gained international stature as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today.
The Pacifica tours extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia, performing regularly in the world’s major concert halls. During the 2013-14 season, the Quartet toured Europe on three occasions and in January 2014 were at the Cit’e de la musique’s String Quartet Biennial, a gathering of premier ensembles from around the globe.
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.
In 2006 the Quartet was featured on the cover of Gramophone and heralded as one of “five new quartets you should know about,” the only American quartet to make the list. And in 2009, the Quartet was named “Ensemble of the Year” by Musical America.
