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Described as a performer who weaves “long lines of beauty and strength” (Buffalo News), American cellist Natasha Farny has appeared in multiple venues across the nation as soloist and teacher. She has performed concertos with orchestras that include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Greeley Symphony Orchestra, the Abilene Philharmonic, the Western New York Chamber Orchestra and the Erie Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra and New Juilliard Ensemble. With the Juilliard Symphony, she collaborated with conductor Robert Spano in the performance of Dutilleux’s Tout un Monde Lointain, and with the New Juilliard Ensemble, she gave a world premiere performance of Olav Anton Thommessen’s concerto Upon Reflection. Dr. Farny is an active recitalist and has appeared live on Chicago and Rochester Public Radio, in Leipzig’s Mendelssohn Haus, and in several American cities including Dallas, Tallahassee, Boston and New York. Recently, she has appeared in concert at the Holland Festival of Amsterdam, the Salle Pleyel at the Paris Festival D’Automne, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of the South (TN), Miami University in Ohio, and the City University of New York at Hunter College, with programs ranging from solo Bach to Varèse. As a chamber musician, she concertizes frequently with the Mercury Piano trio and the contemporary ensemble ANA. She has appeared at numerous European music festivals including the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England, the Kronberg Cello Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Festival, and the Leipzig Internationales Kammermusikfestival. As a teacher, she has given masterclasses in several universities and summer festivals, appearing at the Quartet Program, the Tennessee Cello Workshop, Grand Valley State University (MI) and a recent tour of Suffolk County schools in New York’s Long Island. Currently, she teaches at the State University of New York at Fredonia and in the summer at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Tennessee. After pursuing undergraduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale University, Dr. Farny earned a master of music degree at the Eastman School of Music and a doctorate of musical arts degree at the Juilliard School. A distinguished scholar in music, Dr. Farny completed a monograph of Beethoven's Cello Sonata, Op. 102, No. 1, under the supervision of renowned Beethoven scholar and writer Maynard Solomon. Primary cello teachers have included such luminaries as Orlando Cole, Ronald Feldman, Stephen Doane, Joel Krosnick, and Harvey Shapiro; additionally, she has benefited from the tutelage of some of the most renowned chamber ensembles in the world, including the Juilliard String Quartet, violinist Felix Galimir, and violist Karen Tuttle. |
