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Roles and Repertoire

site updated: 3/06/07   - 8:30am






Here you will find the most current listings of Ms. Farnum's past roles and repertoire. She is an active performer in many diverse musical styles, and her performance of modern music, early music and musical theater have taken her throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.








REPERTOIRE

Chamber Music:

Babbitt:  No Longer Very Clear
    Speculum Musicae

Beaumarchais: Diane e Acteon
    Rialto Ensemble (various performances in NY and on Tour)
    Bronx Arts Ensemble

Boulez: Improvisation 1 Sur Mallarme
    S.E.M. Ensemble, Tully Hall, 5/00

Cage: Ryoanji
    S.E.M. Ensemble, Paula Cooper Gallery, 5/01

Capers:  Song of the Seasons
    Bronx Community College, 1995

Corbett: Archipel Chagall II: Le Cirque
    Cygnus Ensemble, Center for Ethical Culture, 4/02

Cory: Presence Without Name
    Long Island Composers' Alliance, 1999   

Faure:  La Bonne Chanson
    North Country Chamber Players

Feldman: For Franz Kline, Rabbi Akiba
    Institute of Contemporary Arts, London - 11/00

Gordon: Orpheus & Euridice
    Cooper Union, 10/01

Griffin: The Far Field
    NYU, 11/97
    The Lark Ascending, 11/01

Handel: German Arias
    Rialto Ensemble - Goethe Society - 1999?
    Bronx Arts Ensemble - 2001

Harbison: Between Two Worlds
    June in Buffalo Festival, 6/02

Heydarbeygi: Gusan (voice, violin, cello, text in Persian)
    Bronx Arts Ensemble, 1996?
    Weill Hall, 2000

Phillip Johnston:  Faust (Jazz movie soundtrack performed live)
    European tour, 2005

Kotik: There is Singularly Nothing
    Institute of Contemporary Arts, London - 11/00
    Many Many Women, Paula Cooper Gallery, 1999

Mancini: Quanto Dolce
    Rialto Ensemble
    Bronx Arts Ensemble

Milhaud: Petite Symphony #6
    Warwick Festival, Warwick, NY, 10/95

Moser: Nach Deutsches Volksliederen
    Parnassus, Merkin Hall, 1997

Pleskow:  Chamber Setting
    North/South Consonance, NY, NY

Ravel: Chansons Madecasses
    North Country Chamber Players, 2005
    Parnassus, Merkin Hall, 1997
    Hilton Head Island, SC, 1994

Schubert:  Shepherd on the Rock
    100th St. Concerts Association, 3/95
    Donnelle Library, 1998
    Union College, 2/02

Spohr: Clarinet Songs
    Klangfarben (chamber ensemble) - St. Luke in the Fields - 1996

Stravinsky: The Fawn & the Sheperdhess (arr. Klangfarben)
    Trinity Wall St. Concert Series - 1995?

Telemann: Du bist verflucht, o Schreckenstimme
    Bronx Arts Ensemble, 3/02

Wuorinen: Fenton Songs
    Guggenheim Museum, 1999?



Voice/Piano:

Barber: Hermit Songs
    Union College, Schenectady, NY  2/02

Beeson: The Moon
    The Lark Ascending - 3/00

Bell:  Loss Songs
    North/South Consonance (performance and recording)

De Kennessey:  High Summer
    9/01
Karchin:  Selected Songs
    various performances and recording for Albany - released 2005

Moe: Siren Songs
    North River Music, Renee Weiler Hall, 11/01

Pleskow:  Drei Lieder
    North/South Consonance

Rosalvetz:  Plammenyj Krug (and selected songs)
    Miller Theatre Composers' Portraits - NY, Boston

Shoenberg: Cabaret Songs
    Klangfarben, Trinity Lutheran Church, 1994\

Sorabji:  The complete Songs for Soprano
    World Premiere recording

Webern: Four Stefan George Songs
    (recorded privately but not performed)

Numerous songs of Schubert, Faure, Wolf, Debussy, etc. in various performances



Oratorio/Concert:
Traditional works:

Bach Cantatas:
    38 - Musica Sacra - 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church - 1997(?)
        Richard Westenburg, Cond.
    4, 196, 61 -     Canticum Novum Singers - November 1996, Merkin Hall   
        Harold Rosenbaum, Cond.

    106 -     Canticum Novum Singers - Nov. 96, Merkin, H. Rosenbaum, Cond.
        100th St. Concerts Assocation - St. Michael's Church - 1992,
            Claudia Dumschat, Cond.
        Bronx Arts Ensemble, 12/93, Robert Minotti, Cond.
        Hunter College -  1999?, Mark Mangini, Cond.
    147:    Waldorf Choral Society, 2005
   
Bach: Magnificat
    Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity - 1999?, Richard Erickson, Cond.
    St. George's Choral Society - 12/94, Ken Dake, Cond.
    Bronx Arts Ensemble - 2002, Robert Minotti, Cond.
    Amor Artis, Church of St. Jean Baptiste, 1999, Johannes Somary, Cond.
    Waldorf Choral Society, 12/05, George Rose, Cond.

Beethoven: Symphony #9   
    Jupiter Symphony, 1998, 1999 - Jens Nygaard, Cond.

Brahms: Requiem
    100th St. Concerts Association, 3/94, Claudia Dumschat, Cond.

Carissimi: Jepthe
    Warwick Festival, Warwick, NY - 11/97

Faure: Requiem
    St. Bartholomew's Church - 4/92, James Litton, Cond.
    Bronx Arts Ensemble - 4/92, 4/01, Robert Minotti, Cond.
    St. Mary The Virgin - Manhattan - 10/95, Kyler Brown, Cond.
    St. Michael's Church, 11/93, Claudia Dumschat, Cond.

Gounod: St. Cecelia Mass
    Church of St. Mary the Virgin - Manhattan- 1995?

Handel: Dixit Dominus
    Goliard Concerts, Merkin Hall, 11/93, Pat Handy, Cond.

Handel: Messiah
    Long Island Choral Society - Cathedral of the Incarnation - 2000
        Meredith Baker, Cond.
    100th St. Concerts Assocation - 1992 - Claudia Dumschat, Cond.
    Cathedral of St. John The Divine - 1997-2000 - Johnson Flucker, Cond.
    Scarborough Pres. Church, 12/93
   
Haydn: Missa Brevis
    Kingsboro Community College, 1999 - Mark Mangini, Cond.
    Resurrection Church, Rye - 1998, William Maul, Cond.
    Fordham University, 11/93, Robert Minotti, Cond.

Haydn: Mass in Time of War
    Waldorf Choral Society - St. Anne's Church, New Hyde Park, NY - 5/01
        George Rose, Cond.

Mahler: Symphony #4
    Slee Symphony, Buffalo, NY  9/00, Magnus Maartenson, Cond.
    High Mountain Symphony, 9/04

Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate
    St. Michael's Church, 1993, Claudia Dumschat, Cond.
    Kingsboro Community College, 1998, Mark Mangini, Cond.
    Waldorf Choral Society, 12/04

Mozart:  Grand Mass in C Minor
    Waldorf Choral Society, 4/06

Mozart:  Missa Brevis in B
    Long Island Choral Society, 3/06

Mozart: Requiem
    St. Bartholomew's Church, 4/96, William Trafka, Cond.
    Bronx Arts Ensemble, 5/2000, Robert Minotti, Cond.
    Paul Hostetter, Cond., 5/06

Mozart:  Vespers
    Waldorf Choral Society, 4/06

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (First witch, Second Woman)
    Central City Chorus, Central Presbyterian Church, 6/92
        Chuck Pilling, Cond.

Respighi - Laud to the Nativity
    Waldorf Choral Society - 12/00, George Rose, Cond.

Rossini - Petite Messe Sollonelle
    Adelphi College - 12/99

Schubert: Mass in G
    Resurrection Church, Rye - 1997, William Maul, Cond.

Vaughan Williams: Hodie
    Waldorf Choral Society - 12/01, George Rose, Cond.

Vivaldi: Gloria
    Hunter College, 12/99, Mark Mangini, Cond.
    Long Island Choral Society, Meredith Baker, Cond.

Modern Works:

Bartok: Three Village Scenes
    American Symphony Orchestra, 11/95, Tully Hall, Leon Botstein, Cond.

Bassi: Carol Symphony
    Cathedral of St. John the Divine - 1997, 1999, 2000 - Johnson Flucker, Cond.

Berio: Canticum Novissimi Testamenti II
    New York Virtuoso Singers - Alice Tully Hall, 1994   

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
    Goliard Concerts, Tully Hall, 12/92, Marin Alsop, Cond.

Bielawa: Lux
    Bronx Arts Ensemble, 1995, William Maul, Cond.

Britten: Ceremony of Carols
    St. George's Choral Society, 1996?, Ken Dake, Cond.
    Resurrection Church, Rye, 1999?, William Maul, Cond.
    Broadway Church, 12/93, Claudia Dunschat, Cond.

Britten: Ode to St. Cecilia
    Hudson Valley Singers, 1/94, Harold Rosenbaum, Cond.

Copeland: In The Beginning
    Greenwich Village Singers, St. Peter's Church - 2000, Mark Mangini, Cond.

Grana/Vonnegut: Requiem
    Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, 7/92 - Symphony Space
        Richard Aulden Clark, Cond.

Keuris: To Brooklyn Bridge
    New York Virtuoso Singers, Tully Hall, 1994, Harold Rosenbaum, Cond.

Kurtag:  Troussova
    Sequitur

Peterson:  7 Debussy Songs in Arrangement for Orchestra
      La Jolla Symphony, Harvey Sollberger, Cond.

Roseman: Mass
    Warwick Festival, Warwick, NY, 10/95, Ronald Roseman, Cond.

Rutter: Magnificat
    West Village Chorale, Church of  St. Luke in the Fields - 1992
        Gwen Gould, Cond.

Scelsi:  Khoom
    Sequitur

Schlenck: A Mission To The World
    Tully Hall - 10/94, Judith Clurman, Cond.

Twining: Requeim
    Concertgebouw, Amsterdam - 11/00
    Miller Theatre - 5/01
    Little Church Around the Corner - Manhattan - 4/01


Voice/1 other instrument

Dickman: If there were no birds, Rabbi Nathan's Prayer
    Bridgehampton  Chamber Festival - 1995?
    (voice/violin)

Lucier: Solo #2
    Deborah Hay Dance Company, 3/01
    (voice/wave oscillator)

Meltzer:  Silas Marner songs
    Rome, Italy, 2005
    (voice/'cello)

Peterson: Tympan Alley
Guggenheim Museum, May 2002
    (voice/percussion)

Zorn:  Chimeras vii
    Guggenheim Museum, May 2001
    Bargemusic, October 2001
    (voice/percussion)




A Capella repertoire of Kurtag, Hilse, Von Bingen, Eckardt, et al presented in recital along with world folk songs and american sprituals



Opera:

Bizet: Carmen (Frasquita) - Temple Anschel Chesed - 1989
    Norman Myrvik, Cond.
Braxton: Shala Fears for the Poor (Alva) (first performance)
    John Jay College - 1998, Anthony Braxton, Cond.
Pascal Dusapin:  To be Sung (one of three singers in opera)
    L'Opera Francais - 2003
Floyd: Susannah (Mrs. Hayes) - Bronx Opera - 5/92
    Michael Spierman, Cond.
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) - The Group Opera - 1989
    Yakov Berman, Cond.
Mozart: Magic Flute (Pamina) - Bronx Opera Co. - May 1994
    Michael Spierman, Cond.
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro (Countess understudy) - Bronx Opera - 5/90
    Michael Spierman, Cond.
Puccini: Madama Butterfly - (Kate Pinkerton) - Korean American Opera - 7/90
    David Kamien, Cond.
Rosner - Bontsche Schweig (Angel) (first performance)
    Kingsboro College - 1998?
Wagner: Die Meistersinger (Chorus) - Metropolitan Opera - 1990/91
    James Levine, Cond.
Zhurbin: Good Health, Your Majesty (Klaudia) - Bel Canto Opera, 7/92




Musical Theater:

Riverdance on Broadway - member of the Riverdance Singers
    Gershwin Theatre, 2000/2001

The Apple Tree (Eve) - SS Rotterdam, 1989 (also member of revue troupe)

At the Carousel Music Theater (ME):
    Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney), 1985
    Annie Get Your Gun (Annie Oakley), 1986
    The Boy Friend (Polly), 1986
    Girl Crazy (Kate), 1985
    Showboat (Julie), 1985

At The Guild Players Touring Co. (MA):
    Funny Girl (Fanny Brice), 1984
    Cabaret (Sally Bowles), 1983

Damn Yankees (Sister) - Waterville Summer Music Theater, 1985

The Secret Garden (Lily) - Hilton Head Playhouse (SC) - 1994

At the Hartt School of Music:
    The Fantastiks (Luisa), 1985
    Chicago (Roxie Hart), 1985
    Side by Side by Sondheim, 1984
    Company (Sarah), 1982
    She Loves Me (Ritter understudy), 1983



Early Music:

An American Journey -
    National Tour with the Waverly Consort - March 1996
Extensive touring of the U.S., Europe and Japan with Pomerium - 1994-2001
    (including Utrecht, Brussels, Regensburg, Bonn, Tokyo, Osaka)
Various performances and East Coast tours with early music groups Common Ground, the Rialto Ensemble



Music of Emerging Composers:   
    
    Denise Broadhurst
    Ralph Buxton   
    Sean Carson
    Dinu Ghezzo
    Charles Griffin
    Martin Halpern
    Katherine Hoover
    Peter Knell
    Seung-Ah Oh
    Frank Picarazzi
    Martin Rokeach
    Jesse Sklar
    D.J. Sparr
    Kate Sullivan
    Juliana Trivers
    Jude Weirmeir
    Nancy Wertsch



Upcoming Projects:
    T.B.A.









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