STORY BY KAREN BOSSICK
PHOTO BY NILS RIBI
They’ve been part of our lives for the past five years—ever since they took the stage of the Sun Valley Pavilion, wowing the audience with their version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and “Shenandoah” even as the 2013 Beaver Creek Fire gathered momentum in the distance.
Now the genre-defying trio Time for Three will return to perform a free concert at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 8, at the Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood in Ketchum. Doors will open at 6pm.
The special concert is a celebration of the group’s partnership with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony that included a three-year Project Tf3 residence that ended in August 2017.
Time for Three features double bass player Ranaan Meyer, and violinists Nick Kendall and Charles Yang, who imbue their classical bent with elements of country, western, gypsy and jazz idioms.
They unveiled “Songs of Joy,” a piece commissioned by the Sun Valley Summer symphony, on Aug. 3, 2017, and have continued to perform the work at concerts worldwide.
The Jan. 8 performance will spotlight the group’s mentorship of the Harriman Quartet, which is comprised of four local high schools seniors: Arika Gourley, Jorgen Lawrence, Thalia Rojas and Lance Verst. The four have studied with Time for Three since their freshman year through the symphony’s year-round School of Music.
Time for Three members will have an intense weekend of work with the high school seniors leading up to the Jan. 8 concert.
“When we said goodbye to Nick, Ranaan and Charles at the end of their time with us last summer, I think we all knew that it really wasn’t goodbye,” said School of Music Education Artistic Director R.L. Rowsey. “We were committed to keeping Time for Three connected to the Harriman Quartet in their senior year.”
Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Overflow seating with live simulcast will be available.
Those who can’t attend the concert in person can watch it via online live streaming on the symphony’s website at www.svsummersymphony.org/special-events.