BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:584@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270418T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270418T160000 DTSTAMP:20261021T185553Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/pacifica-quartet/ SUMMARY:Pacifica Quartet\, Chamber Music at the Clark DESCRIPTION:All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online\, via telephone\, or in person. \nTicket prices: General $60\; Senior (age 55+) $50\; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-r efundable.\nTickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday\, March 16\, 2027 at Noon.\nSeating at the Clark Library is limited\, and tickets are l ikely to sell out within a few minutes.\n\nOnline: https://ucla.evenue.net /events/CTO\nTelephone: (310) 825-2101\nIn person: Central Ticket Office w indows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level\, ac ross from Pauley Pavilion).\n\nIf any tickets for this concert remain unso ld\, they will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day o f the event. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come\, f irst-served basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1 :00 p.m. Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries\, pl ease call or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@tick ets.ucla.edu\, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n Florence Price (1887-1953) \nString Quartet No. 2 in A Minor\n\nGyörgy Li geti (1923-2006) \nString Quartet No. 1\, Métamorphoses nocturnes \n\nLud wig van Beethoven (1770-1827) \nString Quartet No. 17 in B-flat Major\, op . 133\, Grosse Fuge\n\nPacifica Quartet \n\nSimin Ganatra\, violin\nAustin Hartman\, violin\nMark Holloway\, viola\nBrandon Vamos\, cello\n\n“...n othing short of phenomenal...” – The Telegraph\n\nWith a career spanni ng three decades\, the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. Known for delivering performances that are “engrossing \, characterful . . . with a luminescent tranquillity [and] spine-tingling intensity” (The New York Times)\, the Quartet is celebrated for its vir tuosity\, exuberant performance style\, and fearless repertory choices. It s sound\, distinguished by “warmth of phrasing\, dynamic control and sup erbly coordinated ensemble balance” (Gramophone Magazine)\, has solidifi ed the ensemble as one of the most essential voices in American chamber mu sic.\n\nThe Pacifica Quartet appears this season throughout the United Sta tes\, with engagements in Detroit\, Indianapolis\, and Salt Lake City\, as well as appearances at Duke University\, the University of Notre Dame\, a nd the UCLA Clark Library. In the 2026-27 season\, the Quartet also return s to Centrum in Port Townsend\, Washington\, for a week-long residency of performances\, teaching\, and community engagement.\n\nFormed in 1994\, th e Pacifica Quartet quickly rose to prominence\, winning chamber music’s top competitions\, including the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In 200 2\, the ensemble received Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Awar d and was named to Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two). F our years later\, it received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant\, affirming its position among the foremost American quartets. With its powe rful energy and captivating\, cohesive sound\, the Pacifica has establishe d itself as the embodiment of the contemporary American string quartet sou nd. In 2026\, the Pacifica received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg award from Was hington Performing Arts.\n\nAn ardent advocate for living composers\, the Pacifica Quartet has commissioned and premiered works by Keeril Makan\, Ju lia Wolfe\, and Shulamit Ran. Ran’s Glitter\, Doom\, Shards\, Memory—c ommissioned in partnership with the Music Accord consortium\, Wigmore Hall \, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall—received its New York premiere with the Ch amber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2024\, the Quartet premiered Jam es Lee III’s Double Standard—commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Shriver Hall Concert Series—with soprano Karen Slack. Based on a poem by France s Ellen Watkins Harper\, the work was widely acclaimed for its vivid narra tive power\, with one critic describing the performance’s “spine-tingl ing intensity” (The New York Times).\n\nThe Pacifica Quartet has proven itself to be the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles\, harness ing the group’s singular focus and incredible stamina to portray each co mposer’s evolution\, often over the course of just a few days. Its accla imed presentations have included highly praised performances of the comple te Carter cycle in San Francisco\, New York\, Chicago\, and Houston\; the Mendelssohn cycle in Napa\, Australia\, New York\, and Pittsburgh\; the mo numental Shostakovich cycle in Chicago\, New York\, Montreal\, and London\ ; and the Beethoven cycle in New York\, Denver\, St. Paul\, Chicago\, Napa \, and Tokyo\, where the Quartet gave an unprecedented presentation of fiv e concerts in three days at Suntory Hall.\n\nThe ensemble’s acclaimed di scography reflects its adventurous spirit. Its Grammy Award-winning record ings of Elliott Carter’s Quartets Nos. 1-5 on Naxos and the complete Sho stakovich cycle on Cedille Records—praised by The Telegraph as “nothin g short of phenomenal”—are now reference points for those repertoires. Other notable collaborations include Leo Ornstein’s Piano Quintet with Marc-André Hamelin\, the Brahms Piano Quintet with Menahem Pressler\, and the Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets with Anthony McGill. Their most r ecent Grammy-winning album\, Contemporary Voices (Cedille Records)\, showc ases works by Shulamit Ran\, Jennifer Higdon\, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich\; the Chicago Tribune named it among the “Best Classical Recordings of 202 0\,” praising the Quartet’s “unmistakable and apt ferocity.” A sec ond recording with Anthony McGill\, American Stories\, featured world prem iere recordings by Richard Danielpour\, James Lee III\, and Ben Shirley\, as well as a piece by Valerie Coleman\, and was nominated for a 2024 Gramm y Award.\n\nBased in Bloomington\, Indiana\, the Pacifica Quartet has serv ed as full-time faculty and Quartet-in-Residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music since 2012. They previously held residencies at th e University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2003-2012)\, the Metropolita n Museum of Art in New York (2009-2012)\, and the University of Chicago\, where they served as resident performing artists for 17 years.\n\nFor more information\, please visit www.pacificaquartet.com.\n\n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation\, under the auspi ces of Lee Walcott\; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music\; The Col burn Foundation\; Ms. Brenda F. Anderson\; Martha Bardach/Bardach Robson F amily Charitable Foundation\; Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Ms. Barb ara Timmer\; Rogers Brubaker\, Ph.D\; Johanna R. Drucker\, Ph.D.\; The Mar i and Ed Edelman Charitable Fund for Music and Public Service\; Dr. Daniel J. Fink and Dr. Ruth F. Cousineau\; Susan S. Harris\, Ph.D. and Mr. Mark J. Harris\; Judith L. Hellinger\; Dr. David E. Lopez\; Dr. Martin H. Mach and Dr. Susan P. Mach\; Mr. Bernie Mendes and Ms. Elaine Mendes\; Mrs. Jan et K. Minami\; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin\; Jeanne Robso n\, Ph.D. \; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rosenthal\; Dr. Patrici a Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Professor Bronwen W ilson\; and Mr. Robert A. Young and Mrs. Roberta J. Husted Young.\n\nPleas e see here for more information about our chamber music programs.\n\n\n\nP hoto credit: Courtesy of Pacifica Quartet ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10 /Pacifica-Quartet-Site-.png CATEGORIES:Music LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR