Ithaca College

Richard Faria will present a free recital of clarinet music on Saturday, February 21, at 4:00 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College. Collaborating artists include pianist Pej Reitz and cellist Heidi Hoffman. Faria is an associate professor of music performance in the Ithaca College School of Music.

The program includes music of Max Bruch and William Smith, along with more recent compositions by Chen Yi and Janos Komives. The program will conclude with Mendelssohn’s “Concertpiece No. 2.”

Clarinetist Richard Faria pursues an active career as soloist, chamber musician, and educator. He has been a participant in such festivals as the Bard Music Festival of the Hamptons, Skaneateles Festival, and the Garth Newel Music Festival, and has collaborated with the Zephyros and Sylvan Wind Quintets, Atlantic and Arianna String Quartets.

He has performed in Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Spivey Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, as well as at the American Academies in Rome and Berlin, the Temple of Apollo in Turkey, and Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia.