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Baroque Violinist Augusta McKay Lodge on the Ephemerality of Musical Experiences
2018-10-21 20:38:09   (Visits: 445 Times)
Voyage Sonique performing their 2018 season opening concert at the Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church on Oct. 10, 2018. (Shenghua Sung)
BY CATHERINE YANG, EPOCH TIMES
October 15, 2018 Updated: October 21, 2018
NEW YORK—”I don’t think you can make it too grand of a thing,” violinist Augusta McKay Lodge says of music. “It’s too ephemeral, it’s fleeting, you’re in the moment. It’s not something that stays around.”
Just the other week she attended a contemporary concert, far from the sonic world she is usually in.
“But the performance was so good that while I was sitting there, I was relating it to different experiences of mine,” she said. “I think that’s what music is about.”
McKay Lodge performs on both Baroque and moderns violins, with a focus on historical performance, and has been steadily gaining acclaim.
In the past few years, she’s won a slew of awards at top competitions around the world, and has formed the period chamber ensemble Voyage Sonique with colleagues who played together in Juilliard415, the school’s historical performance ensemble. She also released her debut solo album this spring, “Beyond Bach and Vivaldi,” showing a deftness and talent that should prove exciting.
She has a busy schedule in the coming weeks. In late October, Voyage Sonique will reconvene in Switzerland for the Lyceum Club International de Suisse competition, and then she’s touring Russia with a French orchestra. After that, she’s back in New York to perform in an orchestra as concertmaster, and then off to do an opera program in France.
But she thrives on it.“It’s a lot of fun,” she emphasized.
McKay Lodge is in the process of an unending discovery of music, collaborations, an expanding career, and her own artistry.
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