Suzanne Farrin

Suzanne Farrin (born 1976) is an American composer and ondist. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, she is Frayda B. Lindemann Professor of Music at CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, and she has released two albums from New Focus Recordings. Biography Suzanne Farrin, from North Yarmouth, Maine, was born in 1976, and as a teenager she moved to coastal Massachusetts and then to Colorado; she cites her experiences in the former state as an inspiration in her work. Her grandparents inspired her interest in music, and she was a keyboardist for her school’s MIDI band, working with the encouragement of that band’s director. Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, Joseph Schwantner, and Evan Ziporyn were her teachers at Yale. She has released two albums from New Focus Recordings: Corpo di Terra (2012), inspired by the poetry of Petrarch; She considers composing to be “a way of approaching life, a view of the world” and “think s of it as an act, a habit”. The Courier Journal said that she was “widely recognized for imaginatively us ing electronic instruments in her work”. She later moved to the City University of New York, where she became Frayda B. Lindemann Professor of Music at CUNY Graduate Center