Audrey Vardanega Phone: 510-590-8824 E-Mail: [email protected] Education M.M. The New School, Mannes School of Music, New York, NY, Received May 2019, Private Teacher: Richard Goode B.A. Columbia University, Columbia College, New York, NY. Received May 2017. Major: Political Science. Experience Musaics of the Bay, Berkeley, CA January 2019-Present Artistic Director and Founder Neighborhood Classics, New York, NY March 2019-Present Director of Neighborhood Classics at PS 234 Piano Teacher, New York, NY September 2017-Present Zhejiang Arts School, Hangzhou, China March 2015 Visiting Teacher New York Philharmonic, New York, NY January 2014-June 2014 Musical Composition Teaching Assistant, The Bridge Program Columbia University New Opera Workshop, New York, NY December 2013-2014 Assistant Music Director/Music Director Columbia University Forte Collaborative, New York, NY January 2015-2016 Vice President WKCR FM New York 89.9, New York, NY January 2014-2017 Radio Programmer and Host, The Early Music Show, Afternoon Classical Tiffany and Company Global A-List Ambassador, New York, NY September 2016-May 2017 Global A-List Ambassador The Creative Coalition, New York, NY May –August 2015 Intern China Radio International, Beijing, China June-August 2014 Research Intern Festivals Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Highland Park, Illinois June 2017-2018 IMS Prussia Cove, Cornwall, UK March-April 2018 Audrey Vardanega Page 2 Carnegie Hall Workshops, New York, NY February 2017 Publications/Presentations McGill University Musicology Graduate Symposium, Montreal, Canada March 14, 2018 Academic Presenter Djerassi “Dance Lumiere” Presenters Forum, Djerassi, CA June 2017, June 2018 Presenter Columbia University Undergraduate Review Journal, New York, NY September 2017 Published A uthor Columbia University Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies Essay Prize, New York, NY May 2017 Honorable Mention Performance Experience Tri-Institutional Series at Rockefeller University, New York, NY March 2019 Solo Recitalist The Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL June 2017-July 2018 Solo and Collaborative Performer Camera Music, New York, NY June 2015-Present Co-director and soloist Conservatorio de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain December 2018 Presented concerts with violist Gonzalo Martin Rodriguez Old First Church Series, San Francisco, CA August 2013-Present Solo Recitalist The Maybeck Studios for Performing Arts and The Hillside Club, Berkeley, CA August 2015-Present Five-time Solo Recitalist The Crowden School Sundays at 4 Series, Berkeley, CA September 2016 Solo and Chamber Performer The Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Hangzhou, China March 2015 Solo Recitalist The Hangzhou Grand Theater, Hangzhou, China March 2015 Solo Recitalist Audrey Vardanega Page 3 The Midsummer Mozart Festival, San Francisco, CA 2009-2013 Three-time soloist under Maestro George Cleve IMG Artists Festival del Sole, Napa Valley, CA August 2007 Debut Solo Recitalist The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco, CA 2006 Debut Soloist with Orchestra .