Formed in 1994, the ensemble won the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2006. It also released last year a recording of works by Leos Janšcek, Paul Hindemith and Ruth Crawford Seeger from the 1920s and early 1930s. The Pacifica last performed at Columbia in 2002 in a marathon survey of Elliott Carter's five string quartets.

The free concerts of Beethoven's String Quartets will be held at Columbia's Philosophy Hall. All will begin at 12:30 p.m.

Fall 2007
Monday, September 24: Opus 18, No. 3
Tuesday, September 25: Opus 74
Wednesday, September 26: Opus 131
Monday, October 8: Opus 18, No. 2
Tuesday, October 9: Opus 59, No. 3
Wednesday, October 10: Opus 127
Monday, October 22: Opus 14, No. 1 (arranged by Beethoven)
Tuesday, October 23: Opus 18, No. 1
Wednesday, October 24: Opus 59, No. 1

Spring 2008
Monday, February 11: Opus 18, No. 6
Tuesday, February 12: Opus 95
Wednesday, February 13: Opus 132
Monday, February 25: Opus 18, No. 5
Tuesday, February 26: Opus 130 with GroêÈe Fuge
Wednesday, February 27: encore, 2nd Finale for Opus 130
Monday, March 10: Opus 18, No. 4
Tuesday, March 11: Opus 59, No. 2
Wednesday, March 12: Opus 135