Artist-in-Residence Series
The Pacifica Quartet, Musical America's 2009 Ensemble of the Year, returns for a three-concert Mandel Hall series with its signature blend of familiar masterpieces and contemporary treasures.(All concerts take place in Mandel Hall)
Sunday / November 1 / 3 pm
Pacifica Quartet
Dmitry Kouzov, cello
Pre-concert lecture by Berthold Hoeckner, associate professor of music
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat major, op. 12
George Crumb: Black Angels
Schubert: Quintet in C major, D. 956
The Pacifica Quartet, Chamber Music's latest Grammy Award winner, kicks
off the season-long tribute to Franz Schubert with the great Austrian
composer's final instrumental work, the expressive String Quintet in C
major.
Sunday / January 10 / 3 pm
Pacifica Quartet
Puccini: Crisantemi
Jennifer Higdon: Voices
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat major, op. 130 with Große Fuge
Sunday / April 11 / 3 pm
Pacifica Quartet
Pre-concert lecture by Philip Gossett
Schubert: Quartet in D minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"
Beethoven: Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131
University of Chicago Beethoven scholar Philip Gossett introduces a
program containing two pillars of the chamber repertoire, Schubert's
impassioned quartet Death and the Maiden, and Beethoven's personal favorite among his own quartets, the massive Opus 131.