Augusta McKay Lodge is an award-winning historically informed violinist, enjoying a blossoming career as leader and soloist at a young age. Already an experienced leader in the field, McKay Lodge performs regularly as concertmaster with Les Arts Florissants and Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, and recently with Opera Fuoco at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. She has also guest directed the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Chamber Players as a substitute for Richard Egarr. In the past, she has held concertmaster of Bach Akademie Charlotte, The American Classical Orchestra, and Teatro Nuovo.
“[With a] wide-ranging emotional expression… she offers some imaginative accounts, demonstrating much technical assurance, a varied expressive palette and due appreciation of national idioms…All played with substantial accuracy and musical perception, and commendable style.”
- The Strad Magazine
Latest News
Augusta performs as soloist and concertmaster in all 6 Bach Brandenburg concertos with Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, direction Francois Lazarevitch, in Paris' charming Salle Gaveau. To be performed again in August in Rouen's Chapelle Corneille. New video as concertmaster of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien:
Augusta is concertmaster of Opera Fuoco, under the direction of David Stern, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées with baritenor soloist Michael Spyres
Augusta leads Les Arts Florissants as concertmaster in Paris' iconic Saint-Chapelle, works by Charpentier under the direction of William Christie
"Augusta McKay Lodge, stands out as the real thing, a true virtuoso"
- Seen & Heard International
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"Her performance was outstanding: animated, well-ornamented, radiantly in tune"
- Upstage
“Lodge’s special skill, in addition to her intonational and tonal felicities, is ... an inexpressible sense of pace and pause that focuses the listener’s attention on each piece’s most poignant moments.”
- Early Music America