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Natasha Farny
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Bio:American cellist Natasha Farny has a versatile career as soloist and chamber musician. Her playing has been described as “technically quite impressive,” imbued with “eloquence” (Sunday Post-Journal) and replete with “long lines of beauty and strength” (Buffalo News). A passionate performer, she has appeared as soloist with several orchestras including the Boston Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Abilene Philharmonic, and the Greeley Symphony Orchestra, as well as regional orchestras in Fredonia and Orchard Park, NY and Erie, PA. Natasha Farny has appeared in chamber music recitals in Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Heidelberg, at the International Dvorak Society’s American Spring Festival in Prague and neighboring cities, as well as numerous venues in New England and across the American Southeast and Midwest that include live recitals on Chicago and Rochester Public Radio. She has also participated in numerous music festivals in Europe including the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England, The Banff Summer Master Classes, Evian-les-Bains Music Festival, the Kronberg Cello Festival (Germany), the Schleswig Holstein Festival Master Classes, and the Leipzig Internationales Kammermusikfestival. Additional chamber music ventures include performances with the Mercury Piano Trio and ANA, a trio that commissions new works for soprano, cello and piano. A winner of the 2011 American Composer’s Forum Encore Grant, she will give multiple performances of Scott Wheeler’s sonata, Spirit Geometry for cello and piano in various New York state venues. Natasha Farny has recently enlarged her sights to include the study and performance of Edgard Varèse, using the Theremin Cello. She appeared in performances of the complete works of Varèse at New York City’s Lincoln Center Festival and in Europe, at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, the Paris Festival d’Automne, and London’s Southbank Centre. For this series, she collaborated with the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta and the International Contemporary Ensemble. After pursuing undergraduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale University, Natasha Farny earned a Master of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School. After her studies at Juilliard, she spent a year in Leipzig, Germany studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,” under a fully-funded stipend from Citibank. She studied under the tutelage of Ronald Feldman, Orlando Cole, Stephen Doane, Joel Krosnick, and Harvey Shapiro. Natasha Farny is Associate Professor of Cello at the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia. She has been honored there with several awards, including grants from the Faculty Student Association and the United University Professions, as well as the Hagan Young Scholar Artist Award for outstanding artistic performance. At Fredonia, in addition to teaching private cello, she coordinates the chamber music program and coaches the Fredonia Cello Choir, a group that has toured and will be the recipient of teaching by Yo-Yo Ma in December 2011. In the summer, Natasha Farny performs and teaches at the Sewanee (TN) Summer Music Festival and the Affetti Festival in Anchorage, AK. |
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