Carrie Rehkopf has maintained an active career as performer and teacher. In Washington, she has soloed with the Everett, Olympia, Wenatchee and Yakima Symphonies, as well as given the world premiere of Maria Newman's violin concerto, which she subsequently recorded at Capitol Records. Ms. Rehkopf has also performed on chamber music concerts at the Tanglewood, Banff and Norfolk festivals. In her fifteenth year serving as the violin professor at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, her students have received many awards and are immediately employed upon graduation. In 2004 she received the Outstanding College String Teacher award from the Washington ASTA/NSOA chapter.    (complete bio)

Violinist Heather Netz was invited to Athens, Greece to give a series of solo performances with the Greek contemporary company, QuasiStellar Dance Theater. Performing the music of Xenakis, she played for the athletic welcoming ceremonies in the Olympic Village during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, and returned to Greece in this January to perform music by Paganini. She recently received a Post-Graduate Diploma of Orchestral Performance with Distinction from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland, where she won the first prize of the Ian D. Watt Award, a competition of the Sonata and Chamber works by Claude Debussy. Alongside her classical education, she studied Scottish fiddle with Pete Clark and was featured on Clark's album Mackintosh at Murthly- The Music of Robert Mackintosh. Ms. Netz received her Master of Music and Bachelor's Degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. While in upstate New York she freelanced with her ensemble Four on the Floor, a string quartet known by their eclectic and stylish repertoire spanning standard classical to jazz favorites.     (complete bio)

Timothy Betts joined the faculty of Central Washington University this fall teaching viola, chamber music, and music theory. As a member of the Kairos String Quartet he frequently performs and gives master classes throughout the Northwest. Before coming to Washington, Mr. Betts was active as an orchestral and chamber musician in New York State. He earned a Masters Degree in Viola Performance and served as teaching assistant to Debra Moree at Ithaca College and as teaching assistant to Patricia McCarty at the Meadowmount School of Music. Mr. Betts also holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota where he pursued performance studies with Korey Konkol.

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