Lindsay Deutsch possesses the skills of a trained classical violinist with the attitude of a rock ‘n’ roller. That combination resulted in her creating TAKE3 and its merging of legendary composers with the pop hits of the ’70s through today.

The trio performs its “Where Rock Meets Bach” program Wednesday at Packard Music Hall as part of the Warren Civic Music Association 2024-25 concert season.

The evening will include Beethoven’s greatest hits, AC / DC meets Vivaldi, an “Amazing Grace” / Bach mashup, Beyonce’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” film composer John Williams’ greatest hits, Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” and others.

Five young local dancers from Natalie’s Dance Company — Gigi Sferra, Laisi Sferra, Lukah Berry, Olivia Bell and Macie Packman — will be featured on Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

Deutsch, violin and vocals, will be joined by Georgia Bourderionnet, cello, and Ting Li, piano.

After watching legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman on “Sesame Street,” she knew, at 2 years old, what she wanted to do.

At 5 she received her first violin, and described her first interaction with the instrument as sounding like “screaming cows.”

“Years went by, and I started practicing more and more,” she said during an interview from her Las Angeles home. “When I was 10 or so, I was really serious and practicing four or five hours a day.”

Helping her musical ambitions, Deutsch’s family moved from Houston to Los Angeles so she could study at the Colburn Conservatory.

While describing it as a “great education,” Deutsch admitted her style of playing frustrated her teacher.

“My personality was screaming to get out of the box. My teacher would constantly tell me, ‘Lindsay, you make too many facial expressions. You play too loud. You play too fast. You’ve got to follow what Bach and Brahms and Beethoven and Mozart ask of you in this music. You’re putting too much of your own personality in it.”

She received the same critique while attending the prestigious performing arts conservatory, The Juilliard School in New York.

“I realized after I was told to do this, that and the other with classical music that I was in the wrong field.”

Although she performed as a featured soloist with symphonies and orchestras, her major break, which led to the inspiration for TAKE3 came about when multi-platinum-selling artist Yanni needed a violinist for shows in Saudi Arabia.

“Our very first performance and I’m so nervous. I’ve never played music like this before, and it’s a sea of people, 20,000 people, in Saudi Arabia. I stand up and it’s my first solo, my first time hooking a violin up into wires and my first time having in-ear monitors. I’m a total fish out of water.

“I can’t hear anything! I can’t hear the notes I’m playing. I’m totally dazed and confused and having an out-of-body experience. My only thought is, ‘This will be my first and last chance to play with this man and I’ll be fired tomorrow.’ Well, lo and behold, it was not the in-ear monitors that had gone out. Nothing went wrong. The crowd was so loud, it was drowning out everything else that I was supposed to be listening to. In that moment, I knew that the direction of my life would change forever, that I wanted to be a pop crossover artist from that day forward.”

On the plane heading home, she developed the concept of TAKE3 on a Delta Air Lines napkin. Since its 2018 origins, Deutsch, as the act’s main member, now performs nearly 300 dates a year.

Since those first shows as part of Yanni’s 13-piece band, Deutsch continued to tour all over the world with him wherein she gained invaluable lessons.

“I learned so much about the art of performance and entertainment because in Juilliard and at Colburn, you’re not an entertainer. Don’t say that word. That’s a bad word.

“I watched Yanni every night and how he brought this to life, his sixth sense about what the audience wanted that night. I learned all these skills over the next few years, and I brought that knowledge to TAKE3. So, I’m very grateful to him for that opportunity.”

In addition to enjoying the freedom of allowing her personality to shine through her playing as she entertains audiences, Deutsch also wants TAKE3 to be a source for attracting the next generations of classical music listeners.

Listening to pop music throughout her life, she noticed chord progressions in today’s hits that were similar to the classical material she played. This led to TAKE3 performing “mashups” that combined Imagine Dragons with the opera “Carmen” and Beyonce with Copeland’s iconic piece, “Hoedown” among others.

“We’re trying to bring these well-known classical pieces into well-known pop pieces, and I think the audience is surprised. ‘This really isn’t so far off. Maybe I could enjoy classical music.’ Part of our mission is to make classical music more accessible and to be able to sneak some of those motifs in there. A big part of what we do is student outreach. We started an organization called Classics Alive (in 2007), and the mission is to keep the classics alive.”

The approach to do that combined her education in the classroom and on the concert stage. “How do I respect that history and then bring it to an audience that can appreciate what I value and appreciate what I’m bringing to the world? TAKE3 was my answer.”

If you go …

WHAT: Warren Civic Music Association — TAKE3

WHEN: 7 p.m. Wednesday

WHERE: Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave NW, Warren

HOW MUCH: Tickets are $45 and are available in advance through Ticketmaster and at the Packard box office before the show.