Asmira Woodward-Page, violin

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First Prize, 2003 Concert Artists Guild International Competition

Australian violinist Asmira Woodward-Page, First Prize Winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, has been hailed as “a remarkable and auspicious talent” by the Sydney Morning Herald. She received praise for her “transforming intensity and beauty of tone” in The New York Times.

The 2007-2008 season features a return engagement at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on the CAG Series. Other current recital highlights include Ravinia’s Rising Stars series and her Chicago recital debut on the Dame Myra Hess Series as well as recitals in Arkansas, Georgia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Current orchestral engagements include Vivaldi concerti at New York City’s Town Hall with the Little Orchestra Society, as well as performances with the Altoona Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania (Vivaldi Four Seasons), the Charlotte Philharmonic (Bruch Concerto), the Long Bay Symphony in Myrtle Beach, SC (Prokofiev Concerto No. 2), the Wartburg Symphony in Waverly, IA (Beethoven Concerto) and her Canadian debut, performing the Brahms Concerto with the Oakville Symphony Orchestra of Ontario.

Ms. Woodward-Page has made numerous orchestral appearances under the batons of conductors Jahja Ling and Michael Christie, among others. In her native Australia, she has performed with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony and Queensland Symphony. As a chamber musician she has collaborated with such artists as André Previn, Atar Arad, Gilbert Kalish, Lara St. John and Jennifer Frautschi. Her festival appearances include Aspen and Ravinia, and she followed the Ravinia appearances by touring with violinist Miriam Fried, featuring a concert at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Ms. Woodward-Page leads the twenty-member, conductor-less ensemble SONYC (String Orchestra of New York City). She was the founding violinist of counter)induction, a critically acclaimed seven-member new music composer/performer collective based in New York City.

Ms. Woodward-Page received Bachelor of Music and Artist Diploma degrees from Indiana University as a student Miriam Fried and Paul Biss, where she was awarded the prestigious Performer’s Certificate. She went on to earn her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Robert Mann.