The Borromeo String Quartet, The Pacifica Quartet, The Ariel Quartet
June 9, 2025, Napa, CA – Music within the Vineyards (MITV) proclaims the featured artists for his or her 31st season of concert events, August 1-24, 2025. Offered by world-class artists in iconic vineyards all through Napa Valley, the 2025 season explores the theme of Transformation – reimagining acquainted music in ways in which supply contemporary views and permit the listener to see each artwork and alternative in a brand new gentle.
The practically month-long collection will current performances by a number of the most prestigious musicians performing at the moment, together with the Borromeo String Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet and the Ariel Quartet.
Whereas the Borromeo’s efficiency on August 6th is already offered out, there are nonetheless restricted tickets out there to concert events by the Pacifica Quartet at Hudson Ranch on August 13th and the Ariel Quartet at Hudson Home, Beringer Vineyards on August 20th. Viewers members can get pleasure from a pre-concert speak by Music within the Vineyards Creative Director, Michael Adams, at 6:00pm and a complimentary glass of wine at every intermission.
Carried out outside at Hudson Ranch within the Carneros area of Napa Valley, the Pacifica Quartet live performance options works by Mendelssohn and Bartók, in addition to Barber’s quartet that features his stirring Adagio for Strings.
The a number of Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet is understood for its virtuosity, exuberant efficiency type, and often-daring repertory selections, and has served as quartet-in-residence at Indiana College’s Jacobs Faculty of Music for over a decade.
The Pacifica Quartet was additionally beforehand the quartet-in-residence on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and in 2021 the Quartet acquired a Grammy Award for Up to date Voices, an exploration of music by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
An ardent advocate of latest music, the Pacifica Quartet commissions and performs many new works together with these by Keeril Makan, Julia Wolfe, and Shulamit Ran, the latter in partnership with the Music Accord consortium, London’s Wigmore Corridor, and Tokyo’s Suntory Corridor. The work – entitled Glitter, Doom, Shards, Reminiscence – had its New York debut as a part of the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Middle collection. www.pacificaquartet.com
This summer time the Hudson Home at Beringer Vineyards welcomes the Ariel Quartet for an intimate efficiency that includes works by Britten, Mendelssohn, and Schubert’s beloved Quartettsatz. Set within the Hudson Home’s elegant lounge–type area, the live performance affords a uniquely private expertise — enhanced by the custom of rotating the musicians’ seats at intermission to offer the viewers with contemporary views. The Ariel Quartet was shaped when the members have been simply youngsters finding out on the Jerusalem Academy Center Faculty of Music and Dance in Israel. Celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2023, the Quartet serves because the School Quartet-in-Residence on the College of Cincinnati’s Faculty-Conservatory of Music (CCM), the place they direct the chamber music program and current a live performance collection, along with sustaining a busy touring schedule in america and overseas.
The Ariel Quartet commonly collaborates with at the moment’s eminent and rising younger musicians and ensembles, together with pianist Orion Weiss, cellist Paul Katz, and the American, Pacifica, and Jerusalem String Quartets. The Quartet has toured with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and carried out regularly with pianists Jeremy Denk and Menahem Pressler. As well as, the Ariel served as Quartet-in-Residence for the Steans Music Institute on the Ravinia Competition, the Yellow Barn Music Competition, and the Perlman Music Program, in addition to the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence on the Caramoor Competition. www.arielquartet.com
Since its inception in 1995, Creative Administrators Daria Tedeschi Adams and Michael Adams have overseen the competition’s programming, and Michael’s signature program notes, delivered from the stage, have been a function from day one.
Along with the live performance collection, MITV presents musical occasions all through the Napa Valley throughout the competition, together with concert events in seniors dwelling facilities, on the Boys & Ladies Golf equipment’ and public areas. MITV additionally commissions works from well-known and aspiring composers, affords instructional mentoring for Napa’s younger music college students and grownup amateurs, and intensive mentoring and profession coaching for the subsequent technology {of professional} musicians via the annual Fellowship String Quartet.
Music within the Vineyards is a non-profit group integrated beneath the 501(c)(3) of the IRS code.
For extra data on MITV, for full data on the 2025 season and to buy tickets, go to www.musicinthevineyards.org.
Donations to help the work of MITV might be made at www.musicinthevineyards.org/help/donate.
About Music within the Vineyards
Music within the Vineyards is a world-renowned chamber music competition held every August in gorgeous vineyard settings within the Napa Valley. The competition showcases distinguished musicians and rising younger expertise throughout its four-week season. With complimentary wine tastings at every intermission and breathtaking views of the Napa Valley, this distinctive mixture of wine nation ambiance and nice musicianship permits audiences to expertise chamber music within the small intimate settings for which it was meant.
