Music in the Vineyards’ 16th season in the Napa Valley opens Wednesday, Aug. 4 with a season offering 13 concerts performed in intimate winery venues throughout the Napa Valley.

This year the visiting musicians include several prize-winning young artists and ensembles who will make their debuts with MITV.

Among them is the Enso String Quartet, which opens the series at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4 in Beringer Vineyards’ Hudson House. The quartet was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for 2009.

Other newcomers include Trio Cavatina, winner of the coveted Naumberg Chamber Music Award; violinist Nikki Chooi, winner of the 2009 Irving M. Klein International Violin Competition; Italian pianist Alessandro Taverna, winner of the 2009 Yamaha International Piano-e-Competition; cellist Joshua Roman, dubbed a “classical rock star” by critics in the classical press; and pianist William Wolfram, silver medal winner at both the William Kapell and the Naumberg International Competition.

The Pacifica Quartet returns for a two-week residency featuring an all-Shostakovich recital as well as Schubert’s epic quartet, “Death and the Maiden.”

Other highlights during the three-week series will be performances of a string quartet by Gordon Getty, and Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet For The End of Time,” written while he was interned in a German POW camp in World War II.

Ticket and performance information at 258-5559 or visit www.musicinthevineyards.org.

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