Pre-Concert Lecture with Destinee Siebe

This season, Lakeside Chautauqua is collaborating with the Conservatory of Music of Baldwin Wallace University to provide lectures prior to select Lakeside Symphony Orchestra concerts. These talks prepare listeners to more fully understand and enjoy the evening’s symphony concert.  Join us at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9 in the Fountain Inn Aigler Room for a Pre-Concert Lecture led by Destinee Siebe.

“People, Places, Poems”
Prepare for the extraordinary beauty of this evening’s Lakeside Symphony Orchestra performance, featuring music by Elinor Remick Warren, Camille Saint-Saëns and Bedřich Smetana. Presenter Destinee Siebe will lead an exploration of the locales and literature portrayed in this music. In addition to these sources of inspiration, Siebe will introduce some of the people – composers, performers, patrons, and many more – who helped create these pieces and continue to give them life today.

Siebe is a musicologist, bassoonist and arts administrator originally from Louisville, K.Y. She holds two degrees in Musicology: a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Music from Baldwin Wallace University.

Her research interests are primarily focused on the 20th-21st century United States. In addition to Lakeside, she has given talks and interviews with the Canton Symphony Orchestra, the podcast Orchestrating Change, and Cleveland’s Local 4 Music Fund.

Siebe studied bassoon and contrabassoon with Jonathan Sherwin of the Cleveland Orchestra. She performs with the Cleveland Winds and freelances throughout the area.

Since November 2021, she has served as the Concert Production & Events Coordinator at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. In this role, she facilitates over 300 performances per academic year, maintains the Fine Instrument collection, and supervises student employees in the Conservatory.