PACIFICA QUARTET TO PERFORM AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

The highly acclaimed Pacifica Quartet will perform at Bryn Mawr on Friday, April 8, at 8 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12.50 for senior citizens and Bryn Mawr faculty and staff, and $5 for Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore students. For reservations, call 610-526-5210 or e-mail hstuddy@brynmawr.edu.

Hailed by The New York Times as "brilliant" and "astounding," Pacifica Quartet achieved international stature just two years after the group formed in 1994. A leading advocate of contemporary music, Pacifica commissions and performs as many as eight new works a year. Starting in 1996, the string quartet captured three of chamber music's most important awards: the Grand Prize at the 1996 Coleman Chamber Music Competition, the top prize at the 1997 Concert Artists Guild Competition, and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1998.

In a review of Pacifica Quartet's 2004 performance at the Library of Congress, The Washington Post praised the foursome for "a set of musical gifts held in ideal balance: exuberance bounded by a natural feeling for classical architecture, scrupulous ensemble enlivened by spontaneous-sounding phrasing, and clean vibrancy of tone working hand-in-hand with interpretive warmth and immediacy. "

The Quartet's touring career has taken them to Australia, Central America, Europe and on annual North American trips from Los Angeles to New York. Today, Pacifica Quartet is both the resident ensemble at the University of Chicago and faculty quartet-in-residence at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

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