Pacifica Quartet play Neskowin

The Neskowin Chamber Music series will welcome the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet for its final concert of the season this Sunday, May 4.

With a career spanning three decades, the quartet is known for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style and often-daring repertory choices. Having served as quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for more than a decade, the quartet was also previously the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Formed in 1994, the 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 The Bowers Program, and in 2006 was awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.

In 2021, the Pacifica Quartet received a second Grammy Award for “Contemporary Voices,” an exploration of music by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

The quartet has proven itself the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, harnessing the group’s singular focus and incredible stamina to portray each composer’s evolution, often in the course of just a few days. An ardent advocate of contemporary music, it commissions and performs many new works.

With its powerful energy and captivating, cohesive sound, the Pacifica has established itself as the embodiment of the senior American quartet sound. 

Sunday’s concert begins at 3 pm in the chapel at Wi-Ne-Ma Christian Camp, located at 5195 Winema Road in Neskowin. Tickets are $40. For more information, go to neskowinchambermusic.com.