The Kalos Arts Ensemble
Original chamber music for intimate salon settings — an evening of active listening, transcendence, and encounter.
The Kalos Arts Ensemble Salon Experience
Upcoming Salon Events
An intimate evening of chamber music presented by the Kalos Arts Ensemble, featuring original works by Gustav Hoyer, immersive synchronized lighting, and a salon-style concert experience
Tuesday, October 6th - 7:00 PM
Colorado Christian University
Large room 066
9200 W Ellsworth Ave, Lakewood, CO 80226
Seating is limited to approximately 75 guests.
Tickets
Student — $15
General Admission — $35
Premium Seating — $48
Includes premium sightlines for the synchronized lighting experience and a one-year paid subscription to the Kalos Arts Foundation on Substack.
Ticket Policy
Tickets are refundable up to 7 days before the performance. Tickets become non-refundable within 7 days of the performance.
For assistance, please contact:
communications@kalosarts.org
An intimate evening of chamber music presented by the Kalos Arts Ensemble, featuring original works by Gustav Hoyer, immersive synchronized lighting, and a salon-style concert experience
Monday, October 5 - 7:00 PM
First United Presbyterian Church
400 E 4th St, Loveland, CO 80538
Seating is limited to approximately 75 guests.
Tickets
Student — $15
General Admission — $35
Premium Seating — $48
Includes premium sightlines for the synchronized lighting experience and a one-year paid subscription to the Kalos Arts Foundation on Substack.
Ticket Policy
Tickets are refundable up to 7 days before the performance. Tickets become non-refundable within 7 days of the performance.
For assistance, please contact:
communications@kalosarts.org
What is an Evening with the Kalos Arts Ensemble?
"The purpose of meeting tonight is to set aside a few hours of life to be filled, surrounded with vibrating air — and through that, to touch what is transcendent."
The Kalos Arts Ensemble performs Souvenirs & Passions: An Evening of Chamber Music — an intimate salon concert of original works by composer and pianist Gustav Hoyer, anchored by internationally acclaimed violinist Teimuraz Janikashvili. The event begins When guests are invited to consider the question: how do we hear music?
The spoken presentation guides listeners into a deeper quality of attention than the typical concert. Hoyer speaks briefly before each work inviting each listener into the music. The music itself is instrumental: no words, no narrative. It is, as Hoyer describes it, sculpture of vibrating air. Guests sit in a chamber full of shared vibrations. What passes from the musicians' hands through the air is reconstituted in the listener's own soul.
The evening closes with a post-concert reception with the ensemble present to meet the audience. The composer in the room, the performers at arm's length, with 75–150 people who came to listen. This is an encounter that concert hall formats cannot replicate.
"That last piece spoke beyond recognition of beauty, it spoke to my soul. And when you think of it, that connection is the real object of our lives in Christ. Beauty is one of the chief vehicles whereby the Spirit summons that attention and ultimate praise to Christ."
— Audience member, inaugural concert, Souderton, PA · May 2026
Light as a Second Language of the Music
"If I could show your eyes what your ears will hear — how would we do that?"
Illustrative · Each column represents one instrument's live audio spectrum
Salon performances are enriched by a bespoke, real-time lighting environment built specifically for these events. The system captures the live audio of each instrument as it is played, analyzes it across the full frequency spectrum, and drives lighting in real time.
Each instrument has its own light bar, showing the full profile of its sound — the fundamental pitch and all the overtones — translated into color: reds for the lowest frequencies, rising through the spectrum to violets and blues for the highest energies. A second layer of ambient lights washes the room in the color of each instrument's fundamental, driven by its intensity, that is how loudly or softly the instrument is sounding. The piano lighting shows the specific notes sounding across its full range at any given moment.
Audiences are cradled in light the way they are already being cradled in sound. The goal is not storytelling. The lighting amplifies and reinforces what the ears and body experience; it does not compete nor explain. It has been built to deepen the encounter and provide an unspoken support for hearing the music more deeply.
The Ensemble
Violin I · Concertmaster
Teimuraz Janikashvili
Internationally acclaimed soloist and concertmaster. Solo debut at age eight with the Georgian National Orchestra. Trained at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Prof. Irina Bochkova. Member, Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra under Yuri Bashmet (1994–1999). Since 2004, regularly engaged as guest concertmaster and soloist with leading European orchestras including the National Orchestra of Spain, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic of Galicia. Endorsed by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) as an artist of extraordinary ability. Lincoln, Nebraska.
Violin II
Cynthia Knotts
Degrees in violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy, Wheaton College and The Hartt School. Concertmaster, Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra and Manchester Symphony Orchestra. Performed with the Hartford Symphony and Eastern Connecticut Symphony. Private Suzuki studio since 2003. Windsor, Connecticut.
Viola
Casie Runkle
An active violist with fourteen years performing with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. Her repertoire spans orchestral masterworks, film scores, and pop music; she has served as section leader and participated in school outreach concerts. She maintains a large private studio of violin and viola students. B.M. in Viola Performance, University of Memphis; M.M. in Performance with Emphasis in Suzuki Pedagogy, The Hartt School of Music. Winner of the concerto competition at both universities. Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Cello
Eric Jones
Cellist and educator whose passion for chamber music began in high school and remains, as he describes it, the most engaging music he plays. Degrees in cello performance from Stetson University and Temple University. Festival training at the Schlern International Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Brevard Music Center. Studied with Orlando Cole, Deborah Reeder, David Bjella, George Work, Elizabeth Simkin, and Ron Leonard. Director of the string program at Philadelphia Classical School; cello faculty at Cairn University School of Music and the Csehy Summer School of Music. Strings specialist, School District of Philadelphia (2005–2018). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Piano · Composer · Director
Gustav Hoyer
Composer and pianist. Works recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Budapest Film Orchestra for Navona Records, including Symphony No. 1 (Navona, 2024, RSNO conducted by Miran Vaupotic). Chairman, Board of Directors, Kalos Arts Foundation. Fort Collins, Colorado.
Teimuraz Janikashvili
Violin I
Eric Jones
Cello
Cynthia Knotts
Violin II
Casie Runkle
Viola
Gustav Hoyer
Piano · Composer · Director
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A Word From A Sponsor
"The Kalos Ensemble is fresh air in the lungs of the church. We as Christians are called to produce great art that glorifies God our savior. Christians have the best reason in the world to do this, and in my personal endeavor to find artists with this vision, I am excited to have found Gustav Hoyer and the Kalos Ensemble. The music is accessible and emotive, connecting any listener to a deeper experience of humanity and God's creation."