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What: Concert for strings and piano
When: Sunday, March 8, 7 p.m.
Where: Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall
Notes: Free and open to the community
Fredonia, N.Y. —SUNY Fredonia School of Music’s Natasha Farny and guests from the Sewanee Summer Music Festival will perform a free concert of French music for strings and piano on Sunday March 8 at 7p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The program will feature music written in Paris by Chopin, Koechlin, Debussy and Ravel.
Guest violinist Harvey Thurmer teaches at the University of Miami in Ohio and Gary Hammond, pianist, teaches at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Harvey Thurmer, violinist
Mr. Thurmer enjoys a varied career as a soloist, concertmaster, chamber musician and pedagogue. His studies included work with mentors Dorothy DeLay and Louis Krasner at the New England Conservatory, and Sandor Vegh at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, in England at the Cheltenham Festival, London’s Wigmore Hall, Zurich TonHalle, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Paris Salle Gavaeu, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and held teaching positions at the Graz Musickhochschule and in England at the Royal College of Music in Manchester, and the Lake District Summer Music Festival , the Lappland Festival in Sweden, and the Summer Academy in Graz, Austria. Mr. Thurmer continues to perform annually as concertmaster of the Echternach Festival Chamber Orchestra in Luxemburg. As a member of the Oxford String Quartet he has performed and taught most recently in Seoul, South Korea and Nagasaki, Japan. As a soloist Mr. Thurmer toured with the Salzburg Philharmonie in South America performing in Santiago, Chile, Lima, Peru, and Buenos Aires Argentina, as well as in Salzburg and Vienna, Austria. In this country he has appeared in recital and as soloist in Tennessee, Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, and Florida, and Washington D.C. He has been a member of the Gables Quartet of Miami, the DaVinci Quartet in Denver and the Oxford String Quartet, the resident quartet at Miami University of Ohio. He currently is an Associate Professor of Violin at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and concertmaster of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra in Richmond, Indiana.
Natasha Farny, cellist
American cellist Natasha Farny has been described as an eloquent performer whose "vibrant legatos" and "long lines had beauty and strength" (Buffalo News). She has performed as soloist with orchestras that include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Greeley Symphony Orchestra, The Abilene Philharmonic, The Erie Chamber Orchestra, and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Farny has given recitals in Europe and in venues across the American northeast and midwest. She has also participated in numerous music festivals around the world including the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England, The Banff Summer Master Classes, the Kronberg Cello Festival (Germany), the Schleswig Holstein Festival Master Classes, the Leipzig Internationales Kammermusikfestival, the Bay View Music Festival (MI), the Artur Balsam Chamber Music Festival (IN), and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. 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 doctorate of musical arts degree at the Juilliard School. After her studies at Juilliard, she spent a year in Leipzig, Germany with a fully-funded stipend from Citibank. In addition to her doctoral work with advisor Maynard Solomon on a monograph of the Beethoven C Major cello sonata, she studied with such luminaries as Ronald Feldman, Orlando Cole, Stephen Doane, Joel Krosnick, and Harvey Shapiro.
Gary Hammond, pianist
Gary Hammond has been describe by The New York Times as “eloquent-a strong feeling of musical expression and intelligent thought”. Mr. Hammond’s performances have taken him to Glazunov Hall in the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia; the Musikdagar Festival in Sweden; the Auditorio Nacional in Costa Rica. He has appeared at Weill Hall and Merkin Hall in New York; Ordway Hall, St. Paul; Boston’s Gardner Museum; Glenn Memorial Hall, Atlanta; Meany Hall, Seattle; the Hochschule in Munich, and Hong Kong’s City Hall. He has been heard on New York’s WQXR, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and on live broadcasts from WNYC and Radio 4 Hong Kong. A native of Seattle, Mr. Hammond is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Juilliard School. His teachers include Randolph Hokanson, Bela Siki, Josef Raieff and Herbert Stessin. He is on the faculties of Hunter College, City University of New York; the Graduate Center, CUNY; and the Sewanee Music Festival, University of the South. He has served as Artist-in-Residence at Emory University, and has appeared at other festivals including the Academies Internacionales du Grand Nancy, France; Musiques en Mer, Italy; the Colorado College Music Festival, Colorado Springs; the Hot Springs Music Festival, Arkansas; and the Oregon Coast Music Festival, Coos Bay.
