Grand OPENING Oct 4!!! 5 days. 9 concerts. WMF 2022 Here We Go!

Less than a week! <3

We’re really living our dreams. Follow all our updates here.

With tomorrow comes the opening day of our festival, and we’re getting ready to work with our residents to prepare a series of events that are going to be… magical. No, really. Magical. We don’t know your experiences with classical music, and we can say with certainty that ours haven’t always been positive. But we also know very deeply that it doesn’t have to be that way. It doesn’t have to be in concert halls, it doesn’t have to be with suits and ties and silence between movements. It can be with barbecued veggies, with storybooks and laughter. It can be with a beer, or two or three. Classical music is “come as you are” music, it’s “we’ve been there too” music, it’s just… music. And music is best shared with those we love. Come out and join us, as you are, and we promise, we’re going to have an incredible time together.

10/04 @ 5PM, Nose Creek Park Amphitheater: Opening Concert by Duo Perdendosi: “Connections: Sowing the Seeds”

10/05: Meet and Greet at the Farmers Market!

10/06 @ 5PM, East Lake North Dock: String Quartet Concert “Debussy on the Lake”

10/07 @ 5PM, Nose Creek Park Amphitheater: Chamber Music Program “Schubert in the Park

10/08 @ 2PM, Nose Creek Park Amphitheater: Closing Concert “A Musical Harvest”

10/08 @ 8PM, Windwood Residence House: Salon Concert

See you soon Airdrie!

And thank you AirdrieToday for this beautiful article!

“We believe in the power of music to bring people together. No matter what style, what genre, which part of the world the music comes from, it’s truly a universal language. We share a very deep sort of nostalgic connection to music we might have never even heard. If we just offer a space that’s very accessible, inclusive, non-judgmental, that’s what we’re aiming to do. The more we bring it out there, the more we humanize classical music.”

Tong Wang

Tong Wang is a Canadian artist leading innovative initiatives across areas of performance, research, and community engagement. Her projects explore the role of art in relation to identity, culture, and current social-political issues. As a soloist and chamber musician, Tong has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, and ensembles across North America and Europe. As a multidisciplinary artist, she has written the libretto of a new opera, “Labyrinth of Tears”, funded by the Canada Council, FRQSC, and SSHRC, participated in the Napoule Arts Foundation Residency in France, and published an award-winning photo-essay in the literary magazine Carte Blanche. Her other projects include the creative performances “Song of Praise”, “Ghiblilane”, “Once Upon a Pumpkin”, and research on the aesthetic of “cuteness” in popular and classical music. Tong recently toured a recital on multiculturalism, “我们Us” in Lunenburg, Montreal, Basel, and presented the interactive concerts “We’re Not Really Strangers” and “My Neighbours Totoro and Claude!” at the Verbier Festival. In 2022, Tong launched the Windwood Music Festival in Airdrie, Alberta to engage with and support rural farming communities through classical chamber music. In 2023, Tong will be touring with Duo Perdendosi across eastern US & Canada, as well as with Duo Incarnadine in Turkey and China to premiere a new commission by Alice Ho, Four Impressions of China. Using diverse mediums, Tong aims to share the power of art to reach across time, languages, borders, and cultures to connect people and kindle a shared understanding.

https://tong-wang.com
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