Last night's Ontario District Quartet Competition saw East York's Replacement Parts win the Woodstock Chapter Novice Quartet Trophy, which is awarded to the highest scoring novice quartet. To qualify the quartet has to have at least two members that have not previously competed with a registered quartet, and this year rookies Geoff Shields (Lead) and Brendan Espin (Bass) rose to the challenge with experienced quarteters Pat Hannon (Bari) and Steve Fast (Tenor).
Replacement Parts was created as a vehicle to encourage East Yorkers to give competitive quartetting a try, and has proven to be very successful. Over the years five different configurations of Replacement Parts have been put together, 10 novice East Yorkers have been introduced to the joys of competitive quarteting as a result, and this marks the third Novice Quartet Trophy win. Steve Fast was in fact Tenor for all three of these wins, the first time as a rookie and twice since as the "old hand".
Well done guys!