Pacifica Quartet with Sharon Isbin, guitar

With a career spanning three decades, the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. The quartet is known for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices.

Having served as quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for over a decade, the Pacifica was also previously the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2021, they received a second Grammy Award for Contemporary Voices, an exploration of music by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, Sharon Isbin — also a multiple Grammy Award winner — in 2023 was inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America Hall of Fame. “Impeccable voicing and a bell-like clarity … gorgeous dynamic range and a gift for interpretative color … Isbin has been a trailblazer in more ways than most classical musicians could ever dream.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The members of the Pacifica Quartet are: Simin Ganatra and Austin Hartman, violins; Mark Holloway, viola and Brandon Vamos, cello.