Ithaca College

Richard Faria, assistant professor of music performance in the Ithaca College School of Music, will perform two contemporary works and one of the great classics of the clarinet repertoire on Tuesday, November 4. The free concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the Whalen Center.

The program will feature the Ithaca premiere of Dana Wilson's Liquid Ebony. Wilson is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Music Theory, History, and Composition in the School of Music. Faria will also play Karel Husa's Evocations of Slovenia. Husa is a former longtime faculty member and a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.

After intermission, Faria will be joined by four colleagues from the School of Music for Brahms's Clarinet Quintet. The assisting artists will be violinists Susan Waterbury and Rebecca Ansel, violist Debra Moree, and cellist Heidi Hoffman.

Faria has performed with the National Repertory Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, Skaneateles Music Festival, Bang on a Can Festival, and the Atlantic String Quartet. He has premiered concerti written for him by Steven Burke and Joshua Kohl.

Faria received his doctorate from the SUNY Stony Brook, his master's degree from Michigan State University, and his bachelor's degree from Ithaca College. His teachers have included Charles Neidich, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, John McCaw, Georgina Dobrée, and Joaquin Valdepenas.

Contributed by Erik Kibelsbeck