Anthony McGill and the Pacifica Quartet play Brahms

Anthony McGill has worked at two of the top jobs for clarinetists since he graduated from Curtis in 2000. He spent ten years as principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera, and he’s now the principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic. He’s considered one of the leading clarinet players in the world, and Philadelphians who’ve heard him play with Orchestra 2001, Dolce Suono, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society know he deserves his accolades. For his latest appearance with PCMS, he’ll join the Pacifica Quartet in a peak of the chamber repertoire — Brahms’s beautiful, moving quintet for clarinet and string quartet. The other items on the program will be quartets by Mendelssohn and the rugged American composer Elliott Carter — a good mix of the exploratory and the deservedly popular.

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will present “The Pacifica Quartet with Anthony McGill” on February 15 at 8pm at the Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Broad and Spruce Sts., Philadelphia. Tickets are $24 (plus $4 Kimmel Center surcharge), and they’re available online, by calling 215-569-8080, and at the door.