Ithaca College

Ithaca College School of Music faculty clarinetist Richard Faria will perform a free recital on Saturday, October 24 at 2 pm in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  He will be joined by violinist Nicholas DiEugenio, cellist Heidi Hoffman, and pianist Josh Oxford.  The program will include a Brahms sonata, “Cookbook” by Kenji Bunch, and trio premieres by Perry Goldstein and Josh Oxford.

Clarinetist Richard Faria pursues an active career as soloist, chamber musician, and educator. After joining the faculty of Ithaca College in 1996, he co-founded the new music group Ensemble X along with Pulitzer prize-winning composer Steven Stucky and colleagues from IC and Cornell University. They made recordings of chamber music by Steven Stucky  and by Scottish composer Judith Weir which Gramophone magazine praised as “powerful, streetwise, colourful.” 

Faria has been a participant in numerous festivals such as the Bard Music Festival of the Hamptons, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, the Cornell International Chamber Music Festival Mayfest, Skaneateles Festival, and the Garth Newel Music Festival in Warm Springs, VA. His chamber music experience includes collaborations with such diverse groups as the Zephyros and Sylvan Wind Quintets, Atlantic and Arianna String Quartets, Composers Concordance, Guild Trio, Mother Mallard, and the Young Composer’s Collective in Seattle. He has performed in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, The Kitchen, Miller Theater, Spivey Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, as well as at the American Academies in Rome and Berlin, Netherlands' De Lakenhal, and the Temple of Apollo in Turkey.