Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Valley of the Moon Music Festival in Sonoma, 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 recorded the complete Bach Suites for the Avie label and performed them at venues such as New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, Seattle Early Music Guild, Vancouver Early Music Society, and The Library of Congress.
For the past 20 years Tanya has been one of San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Portland Baroque Orchestra’s principal cellists, and has appeared with both numerous times as soloist.
On modern cello, she is a long-time participant at the Moab Music Festival in Utah, Music in the Vineyards in Napa, and a member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and she recently be-came a member of the Bay Area-based Delphi Trio. As an educator, Tanya has given master classes at Yale, Juilliard, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and together with Eric Zivian, runs the Apprenticeship Program at the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. In 2020 Tanya and Eric pivoted their festival to a virtual platform, producing and recording the complete cello, piano and violin sonatas for his 250th year anniversary.