The genre-smashing trio Take3 will grace the Grand Concerts stage April 4.

The audience can listen to classically inspired music — including the sounds of violin, cello and piano — with a modern twist at Church of the Eternal Hills in Tabernash. The concert begins at 7 p.m. followed by an artist reception. At the reception, audience members can meet musicians Lindsay Deutsch, Alexa Constantine and Georgia Bourderionnet. The cost is $41.40.

Deutsch, a classically trained violinist, formed Take3 in 2018.

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“There was a part of myself dying to come out and break free of all the strict rules that classical music follows,” she said of her inspiration to create Take3. “So I decided on merging classical and pop music.”

The all-female trio’s tagline is “Where Rock meets Bach,” and audiences have described the group as a “mini Trans-Siberian Orchestra.”

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Deutsch said the band’s “calling card” is mashups, where the three combine their talents to play two songs at once.

“We have a wide range of music that appeals to everyone, and we have a lot of fun on stage,” Deutsch said. “We have a lot of energy and excitement.”

Her personal favorite to play is “Natural” by Imagine Dragons, combined with the Opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet.

Grand County audiences will also enjoy mashups such as Johnny Cash’s “Orange Blossom Special” combined with Rimsky Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee,” and Bach’s Cello Suite combined with the Christian hymn “Amazing Grace.”

Other music will transport the audience through time periods. The trio performs Billy Joel, the Beatles, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, Beethoven and more. It also plays popular soundtracks from films and TV shows like “Game of Thrones” and “Pirates of the Caribbean.”

“We don’t take ourselves too seriously, so we’ll be joking with the crowd and having a great time,” Deutsch said.

From violin soloist to Take3 founder

Deutsch’s talent has evolved over the decades. She first became mesmerized by the violin when watching a program at 2 years old. She begged her parents for the instrument, and they gave her a tissue box strung with rubber bands. At 5 years old, she received her first violin and hasn’t stopped playing since.

When she was a student, her parents decided to move to Los Angeles from Texas, so she could attend the Colburn Conservatory. A select number of students from across the world attend the conservatory.

There, she spent all day practicing classical music, learning the rules of scales, arpeggios and other elements. However, she felt constrained by the genre. Around the same time, she was invited by Yanni, a famous composer, to accompany him on a world tour. She performed as a violin soloist but continued to dream of something different.

On her plane ride home from the world tour in 2018, she wrote her ideas for a crossover band on an airplane napkin. These ideas eventually became the reality for Take3.

Take3 comes together in NYC

The band now includes Bourderionnet (cello) and Constantine (piano). Deutsch, who lives in New York City, found her bandmates with a little bit of luck.

A year ago, she was searching for a cellist to join the band when she spotted “a cello case bopping up and down underground at the subway.”

“I don’t see any human attached to it, but I follow that cello case, and it jumps on the train,” she recounted.

The cello case belonged to Bourderionnet, a French musician from New Orleans. The two women struck up a conversation in the train car.

“We seemed to have a lot in common and hit it off on that train ride,” she said. “And we got together that very night. She came over, and we jammed.”

Deutsch and Constantine were introduced to each other through a mutual friend who attended Colburn Conservatory. Constantine is from Los Angeles. She also performed as the staff pianist for her alma mater, the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Anybody who was trained classically but wants to have fun on stage and get out of their comfort zone, that’s who I looked for in Take3 members,” Deutsch explained.

Now on April 4, Grand County audiences can listen as the band’s instrumentals combine to elevate classical music to new genres.