Friday, January 14, 2011

Pacifica String Quartet in Hickory, NC

The Pacifica Quartet held a high-level discussion of stringed instruments in the Monroe Auditorium on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University, Friday night at 7:30 P.M.  The discussion included testing the limits of both strings and audience perception as it explored some of the thoughts and ideas of Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shastakovich and Robert Schumann.

Brandon Vamos
The group resides at the University of Illinois, is resident performing artist at University of Chicago, and Visiting Artists in Chamber Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Their music has been presented in Lincoln Center,  New York, San Francisco, and abroad. in 2006 they won the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 2009 they received the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.  Upcoming presentations are scheduled for  Tokyo’s Suntory Hall,  London’s Wigmore Hall, and at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.


http://www.pacificaquartet.com