Chamberfest preview: Cris Derksen's eclectic music fits in many stylistic boxes

Cris Derksen Trio
When: Tuesday, Aug. 1, 10 p.m.
Where: La Nouvelle Scène, 333 King Edward Ave.
Tickets: chamberfest.com
Toronto-based cellist Cris Derksen considers it “super-lucky” that her accident earlier this month happened as it did.
Before she was to play at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in early July, a piece of metal fell from a construction site 23 floors up and hit her hand. Derksen says that, fortunately, the metal struck her right hand, which bows her instrument