Vardi Chamber Players

Since her New York solo recital debut in Merkin Hall in 1982, violinist LENORE VARDI, has received international acclaim as soloist and chamber musician for her refined artistry and extraordinary technique. Richard Kimball of the New York Post has hailed Ms. Vardi as a soloist of “..amazing elegance and musicianship…a natural performer.”

Lenore has studied and coached with some of the most renowned pedegogues and performers in the world and received her BM degree in violin performance from Oberlin Conservatory as a student of Steven Staryk and Andor Toth. As a graduate student she was teaching assistant to Joseph Silverstein, and earned her MFA in Violin Performance and Chamber Music from Sarah Lawrence College while studying with Dorothy Delay and Emanuel Vardi in New York.

Well-known as a soloist and chamber musician, she has collaborated with a host of world-class artists and ensembles in concert and in recording. She was a founding member of both the Laurentian String Quartet and the Westchester Chamber Players, and has been a member of the Amacorda String Quartet, The Sutton Ensemble, Musica Sacra of New York, and the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York. Lenore has also performed world-wide as violinist in the Vardi Duo with her husband and world renowned violist, Emanuel Vardi.

Audiences in major music festivals throughout the world have enjoyed performances by Ms. Vardi where she appeared in chamber ensembles at the Newport Music Festival, Aspen Festival, the Yellow Barn Festival, Domaine Forget Canadian Festival, and the Tanglewood Festival. Lenore has also made numerous TV and radio appearances internationally on many stations including the BBC London, CBC Montreal, and in New York City on stations WNCN and WQXR.

Lenore Vardi currently serves as Musical Director of the Snoqualmie Valley Music Festival and founding member of the Vardi Chamber Players.

Lenore’s current plans also include recording a CD of French Violin and Piano Sonatas and the three Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano.