SALIDA — The Pacifica Quartet will play works by Haydn, Beethoven and Shostakovich at its concert July 22 at Salida High School Auditorium, 26 Jones Avenue.

The quartet, which is now in residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, is making its debut at Salida Aspen Concerts. 

The program begins at 7:30 p.m. and the interview with the players starts at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door, but students K-12 get in free, and adults bringing students pay only $10.

The Pacifica Quartet has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. Franz Joseph Haydn is considered the “Father of the String Quartet.” His pupil, Ludwig van Beethoven, is considered by musicologists to have written 16 quartets that have never been surpassed in history.

Dmitri Shostakovich completed his quartets despite interference from the Soviet government.

The Pacifica will play Haydn’s “Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1,” and Beethoven’s “Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135,” the last work he wrote. The Shostakovich piece is “String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73.”

Tickets and information are on www.salidaaspenconcerts.org.