“We cannot speak highly enough of our experience at the Jacobs School of Music and with the Pacifica Quartet,” said Ong. Every first grader in Danville now takes violin lessons.Ĭurrently the graduate string quartet-in-residence at the Jacobs School, Verona will be the graduate string quartet-in-residence at Juilliard this fall. In addition, the members are strong proponents of music outreach and education, holding a residency in Danville, Ill., where they gave numerous recitals and helped develop young musicians’ skills. Within just five months of its 2013 formation, Verona (then Wasmuth) won first prize at the Kuttner String Quartet Competition at the Jacobs School of Music and the Silver Medal in the senior division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition-the largest chamber music competition in the world.
Also in 2014, the ensemble won the Bronze Medal at Japan’s Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. This past March, the Verona Quartet (Jonathan Ong and Dorothy Ro, violins, Abigail Rojansky, viola, and Warren Hagerty, cello) won the Silver Medal and the ProQuartet-CEMC Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, widely considered to be “the” most prestigious international, professional-level competition.įormerly known as the Wasmuth Quartet, last year the group won the Alice Coleman Prize (Grand Prize) at the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition and the Gold Medal Prize and the Audience Appreciation Award at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition. “We’re helping them to find their own voice, be entrepreneurial and find a way to make it in an incredibly competitive field and ever-changing music landscape.”Īpparently, Pacifica is achieving its goal the two inaugural quartets in the program, Verona and Zorá, have been tearing up the competition.
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“We are working with players of the highest level, preparing the quartet that has the potential to make it as a professional quartet in the 21st century,” said Bernhardsson. Since Bernhardsson and fellow members Simin Ganatra, violin, Masumi Per Rostad, viola, and Brandon Vamos, cello, joined the faculty at the Jacobs School of Music in fall 2012, the school's student string quartet program has exploded, with 2014-15 marking the first official year of the Performer Diploma Chamber Music degree. It’s a very delicate process and very valuable not only on a musical level, but on a human level.”Ĭomprising one of the most successful and respected quartets in the world, members of Pacifica are experts in this ever-evolving dynamic and the perfect teachers of the next generation of great chamber music ensembles. “All four members have to become one unified body and be extremely convinced how they want things to sound while being exceptionally flexible. “It requires 100 percent cooperation and collaboration,” said Bernhardsson.
When four completely different people-often with different nationalities, native languages and perspectives-join in a common goal of unified interpretation, a fascinating synthesis begins. That’s how Sibbi Bernhardsson, violinist in the world-renowned Pacifica Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, distills the string quartet experience.
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