Pianist Lisa Bergman has collaborated in performances with many of today's most esteemed artists such as Julius Baker, Marni Nixon, Rolf Bjorling and Ransom Wilson. She made her highly successful joint recital debut in Carnegie Recital Hall. With more than sixty engagements per season, she has appeared in concerts, festivals and conventions throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. More recently, she and violinist Ann Christensen were selected as American Artistic Ambassadors by the United States Information Agency and toured New Zealand, Korea, Taiwan, China and Mongolia. An Artist in Residence and member of the University of Washington Music Faculty teaching in the fields of accompanying and opera coaching, she is a graduate of Juilliard, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Washington, cum laude. As a recording artist, she has released two CDs featuring works for violin and piano with violinist Linda Rosenthal, a third CD with the Westwood Wind Quintet in residence at California State University, Long Beach, a fourth CD of Spirituals in collaboration with Anthony Brown, baritone and a fifth CD with Mr. Brown featuring American song. Much in demand as a lecturer and adjudicator, she frequently presents workshops on the art of accompanying for universities and teacher's organizations. Bergman is Artistic Director of Mostly Nordic Chamber Series and has served as Executive Director of NOISE (Northwest Opera in Schools Etc.).

CARRIE REHKOPF has given solo recitals on concert series in Chicago, London, Atlanta & Detroit. She has performed on Michigan and Hawaii radio stations, and soloed with orchestra across Germany & Austria. Formerly the Associate Principal of the Honolulu Symphony, Ms. Rehkopf has performed under such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa & Sir Georg Solti. As a full scholarship student at the University of Michigan, she earned her degrees with concert violinists Camilla Wicks and Angel Reyes. She studied further in London with David Takeno, and has coached with members of the Tokyo Quartet. The recent past has included solo performances with the Wenatchee Symphony, the Yakima Symphony and the Tacoma Young Artists Orchestra. Ms. Rehkopf has also performed on chamber music concerts at the Tanglewood, Banff and Norfolk festivals. Ms. Rehkopf and her husband, cellist John Michel are members of the Kairos Quartet, in residence at Icicle Creek Music Center and Central Washington University. With the Kairos Quartet they have toured Oklahoma, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, and have performed for radio broadcast in Philadelphia. Ms. Rehkopf is a director of the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute in Leavenworth, Washington. She is President of the Washington ASTA/NOSA, and is in her ninth year serving as the violin and viola professor at Central Washington University.

The Kairos Quartet has been actively performing since 1993 when its members met while participating at the Lake Chelan Bach Feste in Washington. The quartet is a collaboration by two husband and wife pairs: Marcia Kaufmann, violinist and Scott Hosfeld, violist; and Carrie Rehkopf, violinist and John Michel, cellist. Members of the quartet have extensive chamber music experience and have toured internationally. The Kairos Quartet is the resident ensemble at the Icicle Creek Music Center and here at Central Washington University where its members serve as artist faculty. In addition to performing music from the classical repertoire, the Kairos Quartet premieres and records works of living composers. Maria Newman has written three works for the Quartet and its collaborating pairs. This July they will give the world premier of NewmanÕs film score for the Mary Pickford 1910 silent movie "What The Daisy Said". The name Kairos refers to time, not in the chronological sense, but to those perfect hours when we are absorbed so fully in life and creation that we are unaware of the passing of regular time at all. The Kairos String Quartet is the designated Ensemble in Residence at Central Washington University and resident ensemble of the Icicle Creek Music Center (ICMC). This is the first year of the CWU chamber music residency that includes teaching responsibilities, performance and outreach activities.