American cellist Natasha Farny has a versatile career as a performer and pedagogue. 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 and the Buffalo Philharmonic, and in chamber music recitals in Germany and the Czech Republic. Nationally, she has performed at major institutions including the Eastman School and the Chautauqua Institute, as well as numerous venues in New York City, Chicago, Boston, and Las Vegas.
The winner of the 2011 American Composer’s Forum Encore Grant, Natasha Farny enjoys performing new compositions. She is a founding member of the chamber group ANA, with which she is involved in commissioning new works for soprano, cello and piano. She also performs with the Mercury Piano Trio, whose members met at the Sewanee (TN) Music Festival.
Natasha Farny has performed at local and European festivals on the Cello Theremin as one of the soloists in the Edgard Varèse retrospective. She collaborated with the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble at the Holland Festival and the Paris Festival d’Automne, with the London Sinfonietta at London’s Southbank Centre Ether 2010 Festival, and with the International Contemporary Ensemble at the Lincoln Center Festival.
An enthusiastic teacher, Natasha Farny is Associate Professor of Cello at the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where she has won numerous awards and grants, including the Hagan Young Scholar Award, for excellence in performance and teaching. During the summer, she is in residence at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and at the Affetti Festival in Anchorage, AK. 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 doctor of musical arts degree at the Juilliard School.
