A Journey to Prague: Jennifer Frautschi, Tanya Tomkins, & Audrey Vardanega

5 PM Doors & Pre-Reception
6 PM Recital
7:15 PM Post-Reception

A Journey to Prague: Jennifer Frautschi, Tanya Tomkins, & Audrey Vardanega

Gotham Arts in collaboration with Groupmuse is delighted to present A Journey to Prague, an intimate private chamber music performance featuring music from this year's Valley of the Moon Music Festival, presented every July in Sonoma, CA. Violinist Jennifer Frautschi, festival co-director and cellist Tanya Tomkins, and pianist Audrey Vardanega will present music centered around Antonín Dvořák’s epic Piano Trio in f minor — his most "Brahmsian" work.

An array of wine and snacks will be served.

Program

JANÁČEK On an Overgrown Path (selections)

JANÁČEK Violin Sonata (select movements)

DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No. 3 in f minor, Op. 65

About the Artists

Watch Jennifer & Audrey perform Claude Debussy's Sonata for Violin and Piano on gut strings and a period piano at the 2025 Valley of the Moon Festival in Sonoma, CA

About Jennifer Fraustchi

Two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient violinist Jennifer Frautschi has appeared as soloist with innumerable orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and St Paul Chamber Orchestra. She is an artist-member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and has appeared at all of the major chamber music festivals in America. Her extensive discography includes the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerti with the Seattle Symphony. Born in Pasadena, California, Jennifer performs on a 1722 Stradivarius violin known as the "ex-Cadiz", and teaches at Stony Brook University.

About 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.

About 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 soloist 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 collaborations and sustainable networks.

What's the music?

Audrey Vardanega Piano

Jennifer Frautschi Violin

Tanya Tomkins Cello