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 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.
Christos Vayenas
Pianist/composer, writer and impresario Christos Vayenas draws his artistic inspiration from the Romantic and Symbolist eras of the past, as well as various musical traditions of the world.
As a curator he works to innovate the way people perform, share and encounter the arts. Creating intimate spaces in which to present and renew the timeless traditions of the past, he aspires to help define a new artistic culture for the future.
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.