The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) will present the Verona Quartet in a concert of chamber music, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21 in SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St.

Acclaimed by The New York Times as an “outstanding ensemble … cohesive yet full of temperament,” the Verona Quartet received the Chamber Music America’s 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award, and has played at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian.
 
The group champions the breadth of the string quartet repertoire from the time-honored canon through contemporary classics, and its members are advocates of diverse programming.

Notable commissions and premieres include works by composers Julia Adolphe and Texu Kim. Their newest album “SHATTER” reached No. 1 on the Billboard classical charts this summer.

For their first performance at SBMA, the group will perform Walton’s “String Quartet No. 2 in A minor,” Texu Kim’s “Ritus Sanitatem,” and Dvorak’s “String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major Op.105.”

Tickets are $20 for SBMA members, $25 for non-members
Get tickets at tickets.sbma.net.