Harold Farberman

Harold Farberman

Harold Farberman (born November 2, 1929) is an American conductor, composer, and percussionist. His is the uncle of Emmy Award winning actress Lisa Kudrow.

Biography

Farberman studied percussion at Juilliard and composition at the New England Conservatory and at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland. In 1951, he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as the youngest player ever to become a full-time member of the orchestra.

Farberman's conducting positions include principal guest conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra in 1963, and music director and conductor of the Colorado Springs Orchestra from 1967-1970, and the Oakland Symphony Orchestra (later reorganized as the Oakland East Bay Symphony) from 1971 to 1979, where he gave a rare concert performance of Scott Joplin's folk opera "Treemonisha". He has championed the work of Charles Ives, having recorded more of his works than any other conductor including all four of his symphonies. He has also recorded the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler and Michael Haydn with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, respectively.

Farberman founded the Conductors Guild in 1976, and is founder and director of the Conductor's Institute, a summer conducting program initiated at the Hartt School and now located at Bard College. Marin Alsop, a graduate of this program, is one of his most notable students. Farberman is also the author of "The Art of Conducting Technique".

Farberman's compositions include three operas; many works for orchestra and chamber ensembles; the film score to the Academy Award–winning documentary, The Great American Cowboy; and music for dance companies.

Orchestras conducted by Farberman

"Listed alphabetically"
*BBC Symphony Orchestra
*Bournemouth Sinfonietta
*Danish Radio Orchestra
*English Chamber Orchestra
*Hessischer Rundfunk
*Hong Kong Philharmonic
*KBS Orchestra
*London Symphony Orchestra
*Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
*Mozarteum Orchestra
*Philharmonia
*Radio Audizioni Italiane Orchestra
*Royal Philharmonic
*Seoul Philharmonic
*Swedish Radio Orchestra
*Stockholm Philharmonic
*Sydney Symphony

elected compositions

*"Variations for Percussion With Piano" (1954) - composed for the New York Percussion Trio
*"Evolution" (1954) - scored for over one hundred percussion instruments and has been recorded four times, once by Leopold Stokowski.
*"Greek Scene" (1957) - a trio for mezzo soprano, piano, and percussion chosen to represent the United States in an International Composer's Symposium held in Paris.
*"Cello Concerto" (2000) - premiered by the American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

Notable students

*Marin Alsop
*Ronald Caltabiano
*Leon Botstein
*Guillermo Figueroa
*Peter Oundjian
*Michael Jeffrey Shapiro

External links

* [http://www.bard.edu/ci/interior/fac-HF.html Bio at Bard College]
* [http://www.cortelu.com/harold_farberman.htm Catalogue of compositions published by Cortelu Music]
* [http://www.dsoperformance.com/Pages/feature1.html Interview of Farberman student Peter Oundjian]


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