Teagan Faran, violin

A native of Buffalo, NY, Teagan Faran is a multidisciplinary musician focused on enacting social change through the arts. Her playing bridges “classical tradition with the cutting edge” (Pitch Perfect). An avid collaborator, she has worked with the Alarm Will Sound, Blackbox Ensemble, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. Recent recording features include albums with Carlos Simon, La Martino Orquesta Típica, loadbang, Diamanda Galás, and her own project “Middle Child” out on Navona Records. Also active in the world of tango music, she has performed with Victor Lavallén and the Orquesta Escuela de Emilio Balcarce, as well as at festivals across the United States. As a soloist, Faran has performed throughout the United States, Italy, Argentina, Germany, México, and Canada, including appearances with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Uptown Philharmonic, the Clarence Summer Orchestra, the Amherst Symphony, the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Vermont Symphony. Recent performances have included the previously lost Florence Price First Violin Concerto and pairings of Vivaldi and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Faran moved to Buenos Aires on a Fulbright grant. Faran was also a Turn The Spotlight Fellow, receiving their inaugural Hedwig Holbrook Prize. Faran participated in OneBeat, a fellowship in musical diplomacy, DeeDee Bridgewater’s Woodshed Network, and studied Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music. She is a co-artistic director of the GRAMMY-nominated ensemble Palaver Strings, forms half of the wind/string duo Breakfast Calculus, and is an Assistant Professor of Violin at Ithaca College. Faran plays on a 1977 Silvano Rebessi violin and “The Briar” viola by John Perrin Bean, as well as enjoying experiments with luthiers to push the boundaries of what makes a violin a violin.