KAILAS STRING QUARTET
Only in their first year of performing together, the Kailas String Quartet has already gained recognition for their artistry by receiving first prize at the Chamber Music International Young Artists Competition in Dallas, Texas and second prize at the 2006 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana. As quartet in residence at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, the Kailas Quartet works closely under the guidance of faculty members James Dunham, Norman Fischer, and Kenneth Goldsmith.
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Members of the quartet hold degrees from the Juilliard School, Montreal Conservatory, New England Conservatory, Rice University, San Francisco Conservatory, and the University of Kentucky. They have attended numerous summer festivals including Aspen, Tanglewood, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, Manchester, Music Academy of the West, and Sarasota, and have performed in concert with artists such as Bonnie Hampton, Gilbert Kalish, Joel Krosnick, Sergiu Luca, Robert Mann, Menahem Pressler, Joseph Silverstein, and Donald Weilerstein, among others.
Season highlights include performances at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas, the Las Galas Music Festival in Piedras Negras, Mexico, the 2005 Capuzzi Festival, the Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts concert series at MECA (Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts), and live performances on Houston’s KUHF radio program, “The Front Row.”
The Kailas Quartet has performed for members of the Emerson, Juilliard, Mendelssohn, Miami, Muir, Orion, Pacifica, Tokyo, and Vermeer String Quartets. Following a week-long seminar with the Juilliard String Quartet in May, they will participate in the Advanced String Quartet Studies Program at the Aspen Music Festival and School. |
