Events – Desboro Music Hall

Interro Quartet @ Desboro Music Hall

Dec 3 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Please join us for a Winter Chamber Music Concert. We have always thought the acoustics in the Hall would be perfect for a small quartet. Interro Quartet is a string quartet featuring violin, viola and cello.

Interro Quartet combines passionate performances with a curiosity to explore new sounds and venues in chamber music. The group’s repertoire includes works of classical music giants, as well as new compositions by emerging and established Canadian composers. Featuring award-winning graduates of University of Toronto, the Interro Quartet includes violinists Adam Despinic and Steve Koh, violist Maxime Despax, and cellist Sebastian Ostertag.

The mission of the Interro Quartet is not only to make quartet music accessible to those who seek it but also to broaden the spectrum of audiences through diverse programming. To complement this mission, members of the Interro Quartet are also avid educators and clinicians, dedicated to supporting education programs that encourage new ways for artists and listeners to share, experience, and incorporate chamber music into their daily lives.

Interro Quartet Website
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Individual bios:
Adam Despinic, violin
Steve Koh, violin
Maxime Despax, viola
Sebastian Ostertag, cello

Categories: Extra Event Tags: cello chamber music classical quartet viola violin

Aug

Sat

2023

Fundraiser for CDCS with the Joy Trio @ Desboro Music Hall

Tickets

Aug 12 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Come support the Music Department at Chesley District Community School with an evening of music.

The Joy Trio

Presenting Classic Songs from

Gershwin to Patsy Cline

With Special Guests: Students from CDCS

Anika Alexander, Olivia Nagle, Grace Heard, Maisie Heard

The Joy Trio formed just over a year ago. It came together rather by a turn of events as

Mike Grace had arranged a session for Susan to learn about jazz voicings with Don

Buchanan. That plan quickly changed when Susan received an invitation to entertain at a

Christmas party. The planned session became a rehearsal instead and they have played

together as a trio ever since.

Susan Joy Dietrich is proud of her roots in the Desboro Community. Her first time on stage

may have been dancing the Irish Jig with cousins in the Desboro Hall during a Fall Fair

Variety concert. Susan enjoys children, anything music and is especially enjoying this new

venture into jazz as she learns to sing classic tunes from the Great American Songbook.

For over 40 years Don Buchanan has been a keyboardist for many groups and

vocalists in the Grey Bruce area. Through this time he has also been a part of

the music ministry at St. Mary’s church in Owen Sound and has contributed

scores and music direction to several OSLT plays and musicals. Vocal

accompaniment is Don’s favourite musical task and he is honoured to play for

Sue in The Joy Trio.

Mike Grace has been a professional musician most of his life. From

playing ranch parties and road houses in Texas to touring the world with his

trio or quartet, Mike has made performing classical and jazz music his

passion. Among Mike’s most treasured moments in education is being

named a Disney-McDonald’s Performing Arts Teacher in 1996 and being

named University of Michigan Musical Society’s Educator Of The Year.

Among the many performers Mike has had the great fortune to perform with

are Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Torme’, Rob McConnell, Roger Williams,

Urbie Green, Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Henry Mancini,

Jimmy Forrest, Peter Appleyard, Randy Brecker, Rosemary Clooney, Sonny Stitt.

Sat Aug 12

Doors at 7:00pm

Concert at 7:30pm

PWYC

Proceeds will go to the Music Department at Chesley District Community School to purchase new instruments

The Music Department at CDCS has a great need for new instruments as repair costs are high and there is no room in the budget to replace instruments.

Categories: Extra Event Tags: #fundraiser #CDCS #Gershwin #PatsyCline fundraiser

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