Pacifica Quartet

Pacifica Quartet

Band, *1994 US, California
Classical

The Pacifica Quartet is a professional string quartet based in Bloomington, Indiana. Its members are: Simin Ganatra, first violin; Sibbi Bernhardsson, second violin; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; and Brandon Vamos, cello. Formed in 1994, the group has won prizes in competitions such as the 1996 Coleman Chamber Music Competition, the 1997 Concert Artists Guild Competition, and the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. It also received Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 2002, the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2006, and was named "Ensemble of the Year" by Musical America in 2009.

Members

	Brandon Vamos vc US
	Masumi Rostad vl JP
	Sigurbjorn Bernhardsson vn *1972
	Sibbi Bernhardsson vn
	Simin Ganatra vn US

Popular Tracks

String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92: II. Adagio on The Soviet Experience Volume 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich & Pacifica Quartet

Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: II. Larghetto on Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets by Anthony Mcgill

String Quartet, "1931": IV. Allegro possibile on Crawford / Hindemith / Janacek: String Quartets by Pacifica Quartet

Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: I. Allegro on Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets by Anthony Mcgill

Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: I. Allegro on Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets by Anthony Mcgill

String Quartet, "1931": I. Rubato assai on Crawford / Hindemith / Janacek: String Quartets by Pacifica Quartet

Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: II. Adagio on Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets by Anthony Mcgill

Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: IV. Allegretto con variazioni on Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets by Anthony Mcgill

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto on The Soviet Experience Volume 1: String Quartets by Dimitri Shostakovich and His Comtemporaries by Pacifica Quartet

Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: III. Menuetto on Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets by Anthony Mcgill

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Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
Piano Quintet / String Quartet No. 1	Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann – Pacifica Quartet, Menahem Pressler	2017	Album
Piano Quintet, String Quartet No. 2	Leo Ornstein / Marc-André Hamelin, Pacifica Quartet	2015	Album
The Soviet Experience: The Complete String Quartets Of Dmitri Shostakovich Plus Quartets by Miaskovsky Prokofiev Weinberg & Schnittke	Pacifica Quartet - Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Mieczysław Weinberg, Alfred Schnittke	2014	Album
String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 And 4	Elliott Carter - Pacifica Quartet	2009	Album
String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5	Elliott Carter, Pacifica Quartet	2008	Album
Declarations - Music Between The Wars - Quartets By Paul Hindemith, Leos Janacek And Ruth Crawford Seeger	Pacifica Quartet	2006	Album
The Complete String Quartets	Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ‎– Pacifica Quartet	2005	Album
Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13 In G Major Op. 106; String Quintet In E-Flat Major Op. 97	Pacifica Quartet, Michael Tree	2001	Album

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