Because the violinist Asmira Woodward-Page is launching a chamber music festival
When the violinist Asmira Woodward-Page was trying to make it professionally, he had no choice but to leave Australia for New York to take a break and perform with the best.
Returning for 20 years abroad in 2017 to raise three daughters in the idyllic megalong valley of the new South Wales, Woodward-Page has found cultural anger not completely defeated.
The violinist Asmira Woodward-Page is launching the first Megalong music festival.Credit: Peeters Wolter
This is the reason why Woodward-Page has ignored the cancellations of the rock music festival to run a “crazy risk” and establish a tailor-made festival dedicated to chamber music.
THE First megalong music festival He opens this Easter weekend, with intimate concerts in which eight young prodigies will train and perform with the distinct international guests such as the Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute (who collaborates with the violinist Midori) as part of a Fellow program for piano and strings.
The Festival was inaugurated with the support of a crowdfunding campaign and aims to collect $ 20,000 from Curtain Close.
It is not the only new festival that begins in the regional NSW. On the same weekend, the former artistic director of the Opera Australia Lyndon Terracini is launching Handa operates in Millthorpe, near Orange.
“There is something in classical music and chamber music that unites people in one way other musical genres,” says Woodward-Page. “It’s as if friends gather to have dinner together and a good time – that’s how I see chamber music, and it is important, especially from Covid.
“Furthermore, it is not in a narrow and formal environment, which makes an incredible energy everywhere. A festival like ours brings together artists of all the different classical-Solo musical career paths, chamber, orchestra, teaching, new music-in a place for a unique experience. That aspect is a rare offer.”
Woodward-Page is the daughter of the classic pianist Roger Woodward, lifted by his mother alone, the Suzuki Prue Page flutist, and has relying on scholarships and mentors to carve out his professional path.
