Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices, over the past two decades the Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. Named the quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in March 2012, the Pacifica was previously the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and received a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. In 2017, the Pacifica Quartet was appointed to lead the Center for Advanced Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School. About the program: The Pacifica Quartet has assembled a program that traces the age of man. From the teenage Mendelssohn, we have his joyous, sunny work, to the mature Shostakovich whose quartet is reminiscent of folk dances. The program ends with one of Beethoven’s last works in which he faces his own mortality.