Violinist Adam Woodward was one of two winners of the March 2023 edition of the Berlin Prize for Young Artists. His program, meticulously curated and performed with palpable intensity, included music by Liza Lim, John Cage, and Bahar Royaee, and summoned the austere, indifferent beauty of landscapes and stars. Woodward, who is the youngest of six boys, grew up Mormon in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While all his siblings learned musical instruments, and some remain passionate amateurs, Woodward was the only one to pursue a full-time performing career. He studied violin at Brigham Young University and Rice University before moving to Frankfurt, Germany, to participate in the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA). A member of the new Fabrik Quartet, a string quartet devoted to contemporary repertoire, Woodward is currently looking to create a career as a freelance performer in Germany. We met one recent morning in a café in central Frankfurt.
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