The Borromeo String Quartet, The Pacifica Quartet, The Ariel Quartet
June 9, 2025, Napa, CA – Music in the Vineyards (MITV) announces the featured artists for their 31st season of concerts, August 1-24, 2025. Presented by world-class artists in iconic vineyards throughout Napa Valley, the 2025 season explores the theme of Transformation – reimagining familiar music in ways that offer fresh perspectives and allow the listener to see both art and opportunity in a new light.
The nearly month-long series will present performances by some of the most prestigious musicians performing today, including the Borromeo String Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet and the Ariel Quartet.
While the Borromeo’s performance on August 6th is already sold out, there are still limited tickets available to concerts by the Pacifica Quartet at Hudson Ranch on August 13th and the Ariel Quartet at Hudson House, Beringer Vineyards on August 20th. Audience members can enjoy a pre-concert talk by Music in the Vineyards Artistic Director, Michael Adams, at 6:00pm and a complimentary glass of wine at each intermission.
Performed outdoors at Hudson Ranch in the Carneros region of Napa Valley, the Pacifica Quartet concert features works by Mendelssohn and Bartók, as well as Barber’s quartet that includes his stirring Adagio for Strings.
The multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet is known for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices, and has served as quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for over a decade.
The Pacifica Quartet was also previously the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in 2021 the Quartet received a Grammy Award for Contemporary Voices, an exploration of music by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
An ardent advocate of contemporary music, the Pacifica Quartet commissions and performs many new works including those by Keeril Makan, Julia Wolfe, and Shulamit Ran, the latter in partnership with the Music Accord consortium, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. The work – entitled Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory – had its New York debut as part of the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center series. www.pacificaquartet.com
This summer the Hudson House at Beringer Vineyards welcomes the Ariel Quartet for an intimate performance featuring works by Britten, Mendelssohn, and Schubert’s beloved Quartettsatz. Set in the Hudson House’s elegant living room–style space, the concert offers a uniquely personal experience — enhanced by the tradition of rotating the musicians’ seats at intermission to provide the audience with fresh perspectives. The Ariel Quartet was formed when the members were just teenagers studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance in Israel. Celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2023, the Quartet serves as the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where they direct the chamber music program and present a concert series, in addition to maintaining a busy touring schedule in the United States and abroad.
The Ariel Quartet regularly collaborates with today’s eminent and rising young musicians and ensembles, including pianist Orion Weiss, cellist Paul Katz, and the American, Pacifica, and Jerusalem String Quartets. The Quartet has toured with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and performed frequently with pianists Jeremy Denk and Menahem Pressler. In addition, the Ariel served as Quartet-in-Residence for the Steans Music Institute at the Ravinia Festival, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, and the Perlman Music Program, as well as the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence at the Caramoor Festival. www.arielquartet.com
Since its inception in 1995, Artistic Directors Daria Tedeschi Adams and Michael Adams have overseen the festival’s programming, and Michael’s signature program notes, delivered from the stage, have been a feature from day one.
In addition to the concert series, MITV presents musical events throughout the Napa Valley during the festival, including concerts in seniors living centers, at the Boys & Girls Clubs’ and public spaces. MITV also commissions works from well-known and aspiring composers, offers educational mentoring for Napa’s young music students and adult amateurs, and intensive mentoring and career training for the next generation of professional musicians through the annual Fellowship String Quartet.
Music in the Vineyards is a non-profit organization incorporated under the 501(c)(3) of the IRS code.
For more information on MITV, for complete information on the 2025 season and to purchase tickets, visit www.musicinthevineyards.org.
Donations to support the work of MITV can be made at www.musicinthevineyards.org/support/donate.
About Music in the Vineyards
Music in the Vineyards is a world-renowned chamber music festival held each August in stunning winery settings in the Napa Valley. The festival showcases distinguished musicians and emerging young talent during its four-week season. With complimentary wine tastings at each intermission and breathtaking views of the Napa Valley, this unique combination of wine country ambiance and great musicianship allows audiences to experience chamber music in the small intimate settings for which it was intended.
