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"My experience at the Digital Media Center for the Arts had a measurable effect my development as a composer as it widened my perspective on technology and creation. Perhaps most of all I was inspired by the people I met at the DMCA whose work fit so beautifully on the cutting edge."
Suzanne Farrin's music has been performed across the United States and in Europe and South America. Her works have been performed at such venues as Carnegie Weill Hall, Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Festival Nuevo Mundo (Maracaibo), Festival Dancing in Your Head (Minneapolis), LookListen, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, Music in Würzburg, Germany, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Music99 (Cincinnati) and Avant-garde Schwaz (Austria).
Recent commissions include two from Concert Artist Guild. A recent project, a piece for the Harrington String Quartet and bagpipes, had its world premiere on November 12, 2005.
Her first CAG commission will be performed by an artist on the Guild's roster, concert pianist Tanya Bannister. Other musicians that have performed works by Ms. Farrin include Steve Mackey, Jason Treuting, Ken Crilly, Antoine Tamestit, Mark Stewart, and David Schotzko. In addition, ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, So Percussion, Neithermusic, ICE, and Traces have performed her music on the concert stage.
Other upcoming commissioned works include a new work for solo viola for Antoine Tamestit (to be composed in collaboration with Sebastián Zubieta) and a new work for saxophone and percussion commissioned by non|zero.
Suzanne Farrin was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts and currently lives in New York City. Suzanne studied at Yale with composers Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, Joseph Schwantner and Evan Ziporyn.
She currently teaches at the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase, where she is chair of the composition department.
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