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Pacifica Quartet

Named Musical America's 2009 Ensemble of the Year, the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet has achieved international stature as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. Shortly after its 1994 formation in California, the Pacifica won top prizes in leading competitions, including the 1998 Naumburg Prize. The Quartet has since received many honors, including appointment to Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's program for gifted young musicians and Chamber Music America's coveted Cleveland Quartet Award. In 2006 it was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, becoming only the second chamber music ensemble in the thirty-year history of the program to be so honored. Also in 2006 the Quartet was featured on the cover of Gramophone magazine and heralded as one of "five new quartets you should know about," the only American quartet on the list. In 2009 the Pacifica was appointed quartet-in-residence at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, following in the footsteps of the Guarneri String Quartet, which held the position 43 years.