2025 String Camp Faculty
Subject to change
Natasha Farny (Cello) performs frequently as a soloist and chamber musician. She published two CD's, "French Cello Music "and “Women’s Voices,” and an article on women composers. Recent concerts have taken her to Arizona, New York City, Ontario, and Colorado. In 2022-2023, she premiered Avner Dorman's new Double Concerto for Cello, Piano, and Orchestra. Upcoming concerts include appearances on WNED public radio, Saugerties ProMusica, Florida State University, and a concerto with JoAnn Falletta in Tennessee. She received degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, the Eastman School of Music, and the Juilliard School.
Kieran Hanlon (Double Bass) is Assistant Professor of Double Bass and Jazz at The State University of New York at Fredonia. In addition to his teaching, Kieran is a first call performer in both the classical and jazz idioms, and enjoys a diverse performing career in both genres (among others) across Upstate New York and Pennsylvania. An active orchestral performer, Kieran is Principal Bass of the Erie Philharmonic, and works as a substitute double bassist with the Detroit Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Rochester Philharmonic.
Isabel Ong (Violin) is an avid chamber musician with a passion for contemporary music, collaborating with musicians such as Tom Landschoot, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Miranda Cuckson, Yoshie Akimoto, Max Levinson, and Scott Kluksdahl. She has served as a Fellow at the Foulger International Music Festival in Kean University, as well as at the Cortona Sessions in Italy, where she premiered pieces by many of today's upcoming contemporary composers. In addition to serving as a member of the New Juilliard Ensemble led by Joel Sachs at the Juilliard School, she has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, National Sawdust, and MOMA and most recently, was invited to perform in the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in Switzerland.
David Rose (Viola) has served as a titled player of numerous orchestras, including Associate Principal of the Vancouver Symphony, Principal Viola of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and Acting Assistant Principal of the San Francisco Symphony. Also active as a baroque performer, he has toured and recorded with Toronto's Tafelmusik. Mr. Rose studied viola at the University of British Columbia, and also Indiana University. He serves as associate professor of Viola at Fredonia, and teaches in the summer at the Rocky Ridge Young Artists Seminar in the Colorado Rockies, as well as the Fredonia Summer Music Festival String Camp.
Emily Schaad (Violin and Conductor) has directed orchestral programs at Clemson University, South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville County Youth Orchestras, and Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestras. In New York, she has taught in Liberty, Hyde Park, and Arlington School Districts, and was a founder of Stringendo Orchestra School in Poughkeepsie, NY. She is active as a region and all-state conductor, opera conductor, orchestra consultant, and old-time fiddler.
Rick Webb (String Camp Director) earned degrees in viola performance from Bowling Green State University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. After over a decade as a school music educator, he earned the Ph.D. in Music Education from Northwestern University in 2012. Dr. Webb currently serves as an Associate Professor at SUNY-Fredonia. He is a published educational scholar, composer and arranger, and an active string clinician/conductor, working with honors orchestras around the United States. Dr. Webb has also served on the faculties of DePaul University, The University of Massachusetts, Boston University, and The University of Florida.