About Tanya

Cellist and co-Founder and Director of the Valley of the Moon Music Festival, Tanya Tomkins is equally at home on historical and modern instruments. Passionate about chamber music, Tanya has been featured in recitals and at chamber music festivals across the United States, Canada, and Europe, including at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, the Frick Collection, and  92nd St Y, San Francisco Performances, in the Concertgebouw Kleine Zaal, and at the Library of Congress. 

She is renowned in particular for her interpretation of the Bach Cello Suites, and as a strong believer in the positive impact of music on society, Tanya is now devoting more time to mentoring the next generation of musicians, and has given master classes at Yale, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and through her frequent appearances as a guest teacher at Juilliard’s Historical Performance Department.