Rendezvous Arts - Kontras String Quartet / Lewis Achenbach

Rendezvous Arts brings music, art, and people together to encourage conversations and connections that contribute to people’s lives.www.rendezvousarts.org

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Rendezvous Arts Season 4 (2023-2024)

Rendezvous Arts Season 4! (2023-2024)
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<h3>Kontras String Quartet</h3><h3>Visual Artist painter Lewis Achenbach</h3>Presented by: The Chicago Community Foundation, The Butler Family Foundation, and The Buchanan Family FoundationNew to Rendezvous Arts, the Kontras String Quartet has been described as "a tightly crafted and beautiful instrument" (CVNC Arts Journal) and has been commended by Gramophone Magazine for their "scrupulous shading and control" and "enjoyable musical personality" (Fanfare Magazine). Kontras means "contrasts" in the Afrikaans language - fitting for a string ensemble whose colorful repertoire spans centuries, genres, and continents. The Quartet's recent engagements include tours of South Africa and Switzerland; broadcasts on Performance Today and a three-month residency with Chicago's WFMT 98.7 FM; appearances on NBC and PBS; and sold-out performances in San Diego, Chicago, Washington D.C., Telluride, Salt Lake City, Raleigh and Arizona. The Kontras Quartet records for MSR Classics and DoubleTime Music, and have released three critically acclaimed albums, including the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldn0DVnOJUA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">premiere recording of Dan Visconti's Ramshackle Songs</a>. <a href="https://www.kontrasquartet.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.kontrasquartet.com</a>Visual artist/painter Lewis Achenbach is also new to Rendezvous and we couldn’t be more excited to watch him paint as the Kontras Quartet performs. “Color, movement, expressivity, freedom of gesture are attributes shared by painting and jazz as both art forms evolved since the early 20th Century. Modernists creating visual art famously including Jackson Pollock, Stuart Davis and Piet Mondrian were inspired by live performances and recordings of improvisational music. Lewis Achenbach is of that lineage, but goes beyond their responses ad references by making paintings in the very time and place that the inspirited sound spills forth. Daring to take risks as spontaneously as the musicians he admires, Achenbach is both observer and participant in their play, painting in public view while they perform. He simultaneously documents, abstracts, idealizes and subjectifies what he sees, hears and feels, resulting in works as joyously polyphonic as this music with its long Chicago legacy and rich contemporary presence. Line and mass are like melody and harmony in these pictures, reverberant with the passion and commitment that imbue jazz and painting alike.”– Howard Mandel, 2017<a href="https://www.lewisachenbach.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.lewisachenbach.com</a>

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