Pacifica Quartet with Sharon Isbin, guitar

Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, 3:00 pm, Sleepy Hollow High School Auditorium, Sleepy Hollow, NY

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.

Their program will be:

• Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in D Major for Guitar and Strings, RV 93, (arr. Pujol/ed. Isbin) – Isbin,Pacifica
• Enrique Granados: Danza española No. 5 “Andaluza” – Isbin
• Tárrega: Capricho árabe – Isbin
• Mangoré: Waltz Opus 8 No. 4 – Isbin
• Joaquín Turina: La Oración del Torero, Opus 34 – Pacifica
• Piazzolla: Four for Tango – Pacifica
• Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, “American” – Pacifica
• Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D major, G.448 ,“Fandango” – Isbin,Pacifica