Suzanne Farrin
suzanne.farrin@aya.yale.edu

Bio

Suzanne Farrin’s works have been performed in the US, Europe and South America. Commissions have come from a variety of sources and for combinations as diverse as the Irish bagpipes and string quartet to solo piano pieces and works for vibraphone. Her music can be heard on Signum Classics, VAI and Albany Records.

She has been heard at concert halls such as Carnegie Weill Hall, Symphony Space, The Kennedy Center, the Tank, Monkeytown, The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Sprague Hall at Yale University, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Walker Art Center and festivals such as Avantgarde Schwaz, The Carolina Chamber Music Festival, Look and Listen, The Philadelphia Fringe, Music in Würzburg, Germany, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, Music Mountain and Festival Nuevo Mundo (Maracaibo). 

Musicians that have performed her work include Amanda Baker, Tanya Bannister, Ken Crilly, Dominic Donato, Julia Lichten, Jesse Levine, Dan Lippel, Steve Mackey, Sara Okamoto, Vanessa Perez, Jim Pugh, Joshua Rubin, , Laurie Smuckler, David Schotzko, Mark Stewart, Antoine Tamestit, Sayaka Tanikawa, Jason Treuting, Ira Weller and Cal Wiersma.

Ensembles she has worked with include the Arditti Quartet, So Percussion, The Locrian Chamber Players, The Meehan/Perkins Duo, Neithermusic, ICE, the iO Quartet, the Harrington String Quartet, the Parker String Quartet, the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, non|zero, the Yale Philharmonia and the Purchase Symphony Orchestra.

Suzanne was raised in the Casco Bay region of Maine and currently lives in New York City. She completed a doctorate in music from the Yale School of Music and teaches at SUNY Purchase, where she is chair of the theory and composition department.