PACIFICA QUARTET

Backun signs renowned clarinetist Anthony McGill as a Backun Artist, solidifying their commitment to excellence in musical instruments....

Join pianist Ursula Oppens and a stellar lineup of acclaimed pianists for a marathon concert of Philip Glass's Complete Etudes at Lincoln Center. Celebrate the release of a new special edition boxed set and experience the unforgettable music of Glass on November 19, 2023....

Pianist Orion Weiss reveals his exciting 2023/2024 season, including performances with the NSO and CSO conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, recitals with violinist Augustin Hadelich, and chamber music with the Ariel Quartet. Find out more about his upcoming engagements and tour dates....

Get the latest updates on pianist Ursula Oppens as she returns to the stage, giving masterclasses and serving as a juror at various summer music festivals and competitions in 2023. Explore her schedule and delve into her illustrious career as a renowned pianist and recording artist. ...

The internationally acclaimed American pianist Ursula Oppens will participate in Kaufman Music Center's marathon concert series The Pianists United: Rzewski in New York, on Saturday afternoon, May 6, 2023, at Merkin Concert Hall, at 3:00 p.m. EDT. ...

On Friday, March 10, 2023, American violinist Stella Chen releases her debut album, Stella x Schubert, with pianist Henry Kramer on the Apple-owned Platoon platform. Performing on the 1700 ex-Petri Stradivarius violin, Chen garnered worldwide attention with her first-prize win at the 2019 Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition, followed by the 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award....

The internationally acclaimed American pianists Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal will perform in an Music Academy concert on Thursday evening, March 9, 2023, at 7 PM, PST, at Music Academy of the West's Hahn Hall (1070 Fairway Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108). This concert, entitled 'Lowenthal's Legend,' honors and celebrates the extraordinary pianist and preeminent pedagogue Jerome Lowenthal, who has served as a Music Academy teaching artist for half a century....

Clarinetist Anthony McGill and the Pacifica Quartet will perform works by four living American composers that depict distinctive and deeply felt narratives on their new album American Stories, available November 11, 2022, on Cedille Records....

This year the highly regarded pianist Ursula Oppens returns to multiple summer music festivals in Europe and the United States. She will be giving recitals, participating as juror, and leading masterclasses. ...

Carnegie Hall today announced that Pacifica Quartet must regretfully postpone their concert scheduled for this Friday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall due a positive COVID-19 case among the artists. This performance has been rescheduled for Saturday, June 18 at 8:00 p.m....

Clarinetist Anthony McGill, the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize recipient and the first African-American principal player of the New York Philharmonic, and pianist Gloria Chien, a noted soloist and chamber musician who frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, offer a program comprised mostly of German Romantic masterworks central to the clarinet repertoire alongside the world-premiere recording of the clarinet and piano version of a new work by contemporary American composer...

Ursula Oppens is joined by longtime collaborator, the noted pianist Jerome Lowenthal at Brooklyn's Bargemusic (Fulton Ferry Landing, 1 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201) for an in-person piano concert, Eclectic Series: Friendship, on Friday evening, September 17, 2021 at 7 pm EDT. ...

The Sphinx Organization has announced the three recipients of the 2022 Sphinx Medals of Excellence: pianist Michelle Cann, violinist Randall Goosby, and soprano Karen Slack....

The Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet showcases works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich on Contemporary Voices, the ensemble's newest Cedille Records album, available July 10, 2020....

The Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation announces its 2019-20 program for Great Music at St. Bart's, its concert series that for the past nine years has presented music in St. Bartholomew's Church, a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New York....

Concert Artists Guild announces that violinist YooJin Jang, winner of the 2017 CAG Competition, will give her Weill Recital Hall debut on Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30pm. Together with pianist Renana Gutman, YooJin will play works by Bach, Schumann, and John Corigliano. (Watch YooJin and Renana's 2014 performance of Corigliano's Sonata for Violin and Piano at the New England Conservatory here.)...

The Argus Quartet, Co-First Prize Winner of the 2017 CAG Competition, will make its Weill Recital Hall debut on Tuesday, November 13 at 7:30pm. The ensemble performs its trademark blend of masterworks by Haydn and Janácek alongside music by contemporary composers Ted Hearne, Juri Seo, and Christopher Theofanidis....

Renowned chamber music ensemble Camerata Pacifica continues its ambitious “Why Beethoven?” project with a performance of the composer's first major work for winds, his Quintet in E-flat for Piano & Winds, Op. 16....