An Evening of Music, vinyl & wine
Saturday, September 6th, 7pm | boulder
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Tanya Tomkins
Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Valley of the Moon Music Festival, cellist Tanya Tomkins is equally at home on Baroque and modern instruments. She has performed on many chamber music series to critical acclaim, including the Frick Collection, “Great Performances” at Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, San Francisco Performances, and the Concertgebouw Kleine Zaal.
She is renowned in particular for her interpretation of the Bach Cello Suites, having recorded them for the Avie label and performed them many times at venues such as New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, Seattle Early Music Guild, Vancouver Early Music Society, and The Library of Congress.
Audrey Vardanega
Praised as a “[musically] eloquent” (San Francisco Classical Voice) player “with the kind of freedom, authority, and strength…that one expects from the world’s finest pianists” and a “bewitching musical presence” (The Piedmont Post), American pianist Audrey Vardanega has performed as a solo and collaborative pianist across Europe, China, South America and the United States.
Audrey is the Founder and Artistic Director of Musaics of the Bay, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting musicians, composers and visual artists for collaborations, commissions, residency programs, and mentorships in the Bay Area and beyond. She is passionate about providing emerging artists with opportunities to determine their own careers by creating new artistic communities, collaborations and sustainable networks.
Chris Rippey
Chris Rippey is a multi-instrumentalist and composer always seeking to improve his craft and better understand how to help people use music to improve their lives. He believes that anyone, regardless of age, experience, or physical ability is capable of making beautiful music. His focus is on studying the inter-relatedness of music from around the world - how music is the one truly universal language - and drawing upon that process to create new works which grow from diverse roots.
To this end Chris has studied classical music; put years into Scottish and Irish bagpipes, flutes and whistles; played guitar and bass in jazz and jam bands; learned Balinese music and instruments; delved deeply into American blues, mountain and traditional styles of guitar and banjo; and also has worked closely with Scandinavian, African, and Chinese music traditions.
CHRISTOS VAYENAS
Christos Vayenas is a pianist, composer, author and curator. He is the founder of the Autumn Salon, an online journal, film production house and events organization that raises awareness around artists who, through connecting the traditional wisdom of the past with the living energy of the present, are contributing to a global culture of the future.
With a focus on solo improvisation, Christos’ musical language draws inspiration from the Romantic and Symbolist eras of the past, as well as a wide range of musical traditions of the world. He perceives music as a harmonizing force that can evoke powerful experiences of authenticity, emotion, and mysticism.