Interlude Trio will hold the first public performance in Lackey Music Hall Feb. 11.
Lackey Music Hall is the newest addition to Lincoln Trail College. Located in the new addition to the Zwermann Arts Center Theater, the hall will host the performance of chamber music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccolò Paganini, Joseph Küffner and Johann Kaspar Mertz. Interlude Trio members are Sophie Kershaw-Patilla (flute), Tanya Reed (viola), and Michael Patilla (guitar).
Kershaw-Patilla is a flutist and piccoloist with over 20 years of experience as a regional performer and private instructor. She is a former member and board member of the Tennessee Wind Symphony in Knoxville, Tennessee.
She holds a Bachelor of Instrumental Music Education degree from Mississippi State University and a Master of Arts degree in Educational Psychology from Tennessee Technological University.
A member of Kappa Delta Pi, an International Honor Society in Education, Kershaw-Patilla is excited to join the LTC faculty teaching applied music lessons and performing with the Jazz Band.
Reed has been playing viola for over 30 years, both as a soloist and in orchestras and quartets, throughout Indianapolis, east-central Illinois and the Chicagoland area.
From 1996 to 2000, she was a member of the Bradley-Bourbonnais Strolling Strings Ensemble. She also performed in the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra from 1998 to 2006.
Reed has spent the last 14 years playing in the Eastern Symphony Orchestra in Charleston.
Reed has performed for weddings and many other special events. She teaches violin and viola lessons in Crawford County and is most proud of experiencing the joy music elicits from her young students.
Patilla holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and has been active as a classical guitarist for over 35 years, performing throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
As a Fulbright Scholar, he served as a guest lecturer at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, performed concerts throughout the country, made various radio and television appearances, and collaborated with Honduran composers to publish a collection of works for guitar.
He created the guitar program at Mississippi State University, where he was on the faculty for 18 years.
Patilla now serves as LTC’s director of Fine Arts and teaches various music courses and applied lessons in guitar and orchestral strings. He also directs the Jazz Band and Statesmen Singers
The Feb. 11 concert begins at 7 p.m. There is a limit of 60 tickets, and they are $10 each. Tickets are available online at Showtix4u.com.