An Evening of Poetry, Art & Song
Saturday, November 9th, 7pm | Upper West Side
$35/pp (wine & hors d'oeuvres will be served)
The Program
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Music for Violin & Piano - TBD
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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.
Lun Li
A native of Shanghai, China, violinist Lun Li has appeared on major musical stages throughout the world, including Helsinki Music Centre, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kulturpalast Dresden, Wiener Konzerthaus, and Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center. Next Season he will make his solo recital debut in Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C., as well as his concerto debut at Lincoln Center.
An avid chamber musician, he has upcoming tours bringing him to Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, Kimmel Center, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, etc. Lun holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music (BM’20) and The Juilliard School (MM’22). His mentors include Ida Kavafian, Catherine Cho, and Joseph Lin. He is currently pursuing an artist diploma, as well as serving as a teaching assistant of Catherine Cho’s studio at The Juilliard School.
Lun plays on the Stradivarius “Samazeuilh” 1735 violin, on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
Celia Liberace
Celia Liberace (b. 2000) is a DMV and NYC-based painter and graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Much of her work represents an amalgamation of both classical representation and the modern interpretations of contemporary life, using human anatomy to reflect upon complex systems woven within nature and to communicate topics regarding sexuality, identity, social and environmental consciousness, and self-actualization.
She is deeply fascinated by the body’s potential to convey evolving psychological, spiritual, and physical states, and the simultaneous deterioration or evolution of the body and one’s natural environment.
Ava Liberace
Ava Liberace is an artist based in Virginia and Connecticut, and is completing her bachelors for studio art and biology at Wesleyan University. Most of her works take particular interest in the human form, capturing motion, and merging these points of observation with fabricated worlds and mental states.
She uses formal techniques in drawing to explore close observation and to express different emotional and neurological states and their interactions with the environment through abstract experimentation. Her main medium is pencil and pen, and she has shown work in Sarasota, Florida; Alexandria, Virginia; and New York City, New York.
