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Program
Performing from Auer Hall, Jacobs School of Muisc, Indiana University, Bloomington
Turina: La Oracion del Torero, Op. 34
Deirdre Gribbin: Dark Matter Hunting FESTIVAL COMMISSION, WORLD PREMIERE
Prokofiev: Quartet No.2 in F major Op.92 'Kabardinian'
About the Artists
Simin Ganatra, Austin Hartman [violins],
Mark Holloway [viola],
Brandon Vamos [cello]
Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertoire choices, the Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. Named the quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music 2012, the Pacifica was previously the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and received a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. In 2017, the Pacifica Quartet led the Center for Advanced Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet won chamber music’s top competitions, including the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In 2002 the ensemble received Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award and the appointment to Lincoln Center’s The Bowers Program. They were awarded the 2006 Avery Fisher Career Grant. In 2009, the Quartet was named “Ensemble of the Year” by Musical America.
About West Cork Chamber Music Festival
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival takes place annually in Bantry, County Cork. For ten days, from the last Friday in June, a world-class line-up of international ensembles and soloists perform an extensive programme of concerts which run from morning to late night. The two main venues are the intimate library of the historic Bantry House, which overlooks Bantry Bay; and St Brendan’s Church in the centre of Bantry. The Festival also includes a full schedule of performance workshops and masterclasses with resident student ensembles, composition workshops, public talks with artists as well as exhibitions and demonstrations from instrument makers.
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