Violin Master Class with members of Momenta

Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
Lauded by the New York Times as a “brilliant soloist,” Emilie-Anne Gendron has performed internationally in such venues as Cadogan Hall, the Salle Gaveau, the Seoul Arts Center, the Kennedy Center, Avery Fisher Hall and Zankel Hall. Based in New York, she is an avid supporter of new music, having worked with such eminent composers as Roger Reynolds, Jay Greenberg, Hiroya Miura, Behzad Ranjbaran, Aaron Jay Kernis, Samuel Adler, Elliott Sharp, and Philip Lasser. Since 2005 she has been a core member of the acclaimed Sejong Soloists. Ms. Gendron has enjoyed success in several competitions, most recently winning 2nd Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2009 Sion-Valais (formerly Tibor Varga) International Violin Competition. She is also a past winner of the Stulberg String Competition. Ms. Gendron was trained at the Juilliard School where her teachers were Won-Bin Yim, Dorothy DeLay, David Chan, and Hyo Kang. She holds the Artist Diploma and Master of Music degree from Juilliard, as well as a B.A. in Classics from Columbia as a graduate of the Columbia-Juilliard joint-degree program

Asmira Woodword-Page, violin
Described as “a remarkable and auspicious talent” by The Sydney Morning Herald and praised for her “transforming intensity and beauty of tone” by Allan Kozinn of the New York Times, Australian violinist Asmira Woodward-Page has received international recognition for her artistry. Ms. Woodward-Page won the 2003 Concert Artists Guild Competition and performs internationally as soloist and chamber musician, appearing most recently in New York City in recital at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall and as soloist with SONYC (the String of New York City) and The Little Orchestra Society.  She has collaborated with many conductors including Andre Previn, Kurt Masur, Christopher Hogwood, Jahja Ling, Michael Christie and Muhai Tang and performed with all the major orchestras in Australia and several in the US and Canada including  Evanston, Altoona, Wartburg, Oakville and Indiana University Symphonies, the Charlotte and Colgate Philharmonics, and the Metropolitan Orchestra of New Jersey.

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