Exhilarating, exuberant, virtuosic: the Pacifica Quartet has won hearts around the world for its passionate performances. Treading that miraculous line between naked emotion and scrupulous musicianship, a concert with the Pacificas becomes an engrossing sensory experience for the audience.

Such intensity throws a brilliant light onto the pure, architectural beauty of a cherished Haydn quartet. Mendelssohn’s magnificent first string quartet shows its teenage composer’s obsession with Beethoven. The heart-on-sleeve, melodic riches of these two early Romantic geniuses are natural territory for these performers.

Nigel Westlake fits perfectly in this context, offering players and listeners an enticing palette of lyricism and rhythm. The Pacifica Quartet perform works that they are known best for; music that leaves no listener unmoved.

PROGRAM 

HAYDN String Quartet in G major, op 76 no 1
NIGEL WESTLAKE String Quartet no 2*
MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in A minor, op 13

ARTISTS

SIMIN GANATRA violin
SIBBI BERNHARDSSON violin
MASUMI PER ROSTAD viola
BRANDON VAMOS cello

UNDER 30 AND STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

• Under 30 tickets are $30 for anyone aged 30 years and under for Musica Viva concerts. A valid proof of ID must be presented.
• $15 Student Rush tickets are available at the box office an hour before each concert. A valid full-time student ID card must be presented upon purchase to receive the discount.

CONCESSIONS

Concessions apply to full-time mature age students, means-tested Australian pensioners (Aged, Disability, Veteran’s Affairs and Supporting Parent), Seniors Card Holders WITH a government health care card, and all other Health Care card holders.

PRESENTED BY Musica Viva Australia

*Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by the late Kenneth W Tribe+

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