In the fourth concert of our 2025 edition, the Victoria Summer Music Festival is pleased to present the Pacifica Quartet in a programme featuring music by Barber, Bartók, and Beethoven.
With a career spanning three decades, the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. The Quartet is known for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices. Quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for over a decade, the Quartet was previously quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2021, the Pacifica Quartet received a second Grammy Award for Contemporary Voices, an exploration of music by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers.
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 honoured with Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award and the appointment to Lincoln Center’s The Bowers Program, and in 2006 was awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. With its powerful energy and captivating, cohesive sound, the Pacifica has established itself as the embodiment of the senior American quartet sound.
Pre-concert talk 30 minutes before the performance
Tickets (no service charges):
$45 general admission
$180 Festival Pass (five concerts for the price of four)
FREE (limited quantity) and discounted price ($15) student tickets
https://vsmf.org/tickets
This concert is made possible through the generous support of its sponsor, Acoustic Pianocraft, and its underwriters, Ron Cox & Bev Suzuki. Thank you as well to our season sponsor and host hotel, Chateau Victoria Hotel & Suites.
VSMF gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Province of British Columbia and the CRD Arts & Culture Support Service.
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