Audrey Vardanega

Saturday offers a rare opportunity to see a globe-trotting musician in an intimate East Lansing venue.

Pianist and entrepreneur Audrey Vardanega will perform an exclusive concert for friends Julie and Bob Stokstad, inviting the community to listen along. Her repertoire will include classics by Bach and Brahms.

Vardanega was praised as “musically eloquent” by the San Francisco Classical Voice and as having “the kind of freedom, authority and strength one expects from the world’s finest pianists” by The Piedmont Post. She has appeared at venues such as the Kaufman Music Center in New York City, Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, Hangzhou Grand Theatre in China, Teatro del Libertador San Martín in Argentina and many more.

Passionate about providing opportunities for emerging artists to shape their own careers, Vardanega is the founder of Musaics of the Bay, a nonprofit that aims to connect musicians, composers and visual artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s also the director of operations at The Autumn Salon, a New York City-based magazine, film production house and concert series.