Party Pages: Members of the TSO play a private show at a Distillery District warehouse

On Tuesday night we popped into Airship 37’s Hangar Space in the Distillery District to take in an intimate and exclusive performance by four members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Hosted by chichi social club The Society and The People Wine’s, a New Zealand winery launching its products in Canada, plenty of Toronto creative types showed up in their urban-chic finery to hear TSO musicians Peter Seminovs (violin), Sergei Nikonov (violin), Eric Nowlin (viola) and Igor Gefter (cello). The quartet performed a pair of pieces, Mozart’s “Divertimento No. 1” and Tchaikovsky’s “String Quartet No. 1,” for a mostly rapt audience (though the majority sat spellbound, a few attendees had apparently showed up for the abundant vino, and had to be shushed, rather aggressively, on a number of occasions). Admittedly, a high-concept notion of pairing melodic notes with tasting notes fell a bit flat, as the People Wine’s Anna Hine’s mid-performance comparisons between the music and the drink felt awkward and contrived. Overall, however, the night was a success: the wine proved aromatic, the music transcendent and the TSO members charming—Nowlin, who served as the de facto emcee, worked the crowd with surprising aplomb.

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Lennard Commercial Realty sales rep Chelsea Conway and Endo Networks owner and president Peter Day

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The Society managing director Martina Stritesky and boutique PR agency owner April Jackson

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Fashion designer Amanda Lew Kee

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The Society’s events manager Yvonne Ng and co-founders Amanda Blakley and Ashleigh Dempster

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Handbag designer Ela Kowalewska

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Accessories designer Maryam Keyhani

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TSO associate principal viola Eric Nowlin

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TSO violinist Sergei Nikonov, cellist Igor Gefter and communications manager Laura Quinn

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TSO musicians played a pair of pieces: Mozart’s "Divertimento No. 1" and Tchaikovsky’s "String Quartet No. 1"

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The People’s Wine brand ambassador and marketing manager Anna Hine offered tasting notes in between TSO pieces

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TSO musicians from left to right: Peter Seminovs (violin), Sergei Nikonov (violin), Igor Gefter (cello) and Eric Nowlin (viola)

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