Music
Kairos String Quartet
Our Premiere Resident Faculty String Ensemble
KAIROS, endowed resident ensemble of CWU and Icicle Creek.- Carrie Rehkopf, violin
- John Michel, cellist
- Stephen Beus,
- Duane Funderburk &
- Tatjana Rankovich, pianists
Kairos began in 1993 as the ensemble-in-residence at the newly founded Icicle Creek Music Center. In 1998, Kairos initiated the endowed chamber music residency at Central Washington University. Kairos has performed in Italy, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada and across the United States. Committed to educating the new generations of chamber musicians, Kairos teaches at numerous summer festivals and holds a weekly chamber seminar at CWU. In April 2019, they will give concerts in Taiwan with pianist Moli Chiang. Kairos has introduced the great quartet repertoire to new listeners through a ‘Ten Quartets’ weekly series for the Douglas Honors College and many Introduction to Music classes. In addition to traditional concerts, Kairos attracts new fans of classical music through energetic live performances and juxtaposing great music with dance and visual art.
Kairos, violinist Carrie Rehkopf Michel and cellist John Michel, collaborate with world-renowned pianists in presenting concerts of the rich piano and strings repertoire. Kairos has performed in Italy, Taiwan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada and across the United States.
Collaborators include pianists Stephen Beus, Moli Chiang, Duane Funderburk, Eduard Zilberkant and Tatjana Rankovich, violinists Kathryn Votapek and David Perry, and violist Michelle Rahn.
To stimulate the imaginations of new audiences, Kairos also collaborates with other artists including choreographers Shauna Goddard Barger, Diane De Franco Browne & Jackie Kopcsak; storytellers Claudia Solti, Moon Hi Hanson & Gillian Coldsnow; and visual artists Rachel Hall Kirk & Mellasenah Nicole.
Recently Kairos has debuted the Youtube channel “KairosVR” which features 360degree videos of the Mendelssohn Trio in d with Stephen Beus.
Madeleine L'Engle
kairos - ”time outside of time”
“Kairos” is a Greek word for non-chronological time, those special moments when a child is at play or artists are absorbed in their work, when time seems suspended.
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