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Teagan Faran serves as an Assistant Professor of Violin in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Ithaca College. A native of Buffalo, NY, she is a multidisciplinary musician dedicated to enacting social change through the arts, with performances described as bringing "the house down" (Represent Classical) through genre-defying violin artistry.
Her educational background includes:
- University of Michigan (undergraduate degree)
- Fulbright grant studies in Buenos Aires
- Manhattan School of Music (Contemporary Performance program)
Professor Faran's creative research centers on social justice through musical innovation, spanning violin performance, electroacoustic experimentation, Argentine tango, and contemporary cross-disciplinary collaboration. She actively performs with ensembles like Alarm Will Sound and Blackbox Ensemble while recording with artists including Carlos Simon and Diamanda Galás, and leads her Navona Records project "Middle Child" that merges traditional violin with electronic textures.
Her major recognitions include:
- Fulbright grant for cultural exchange
- Turn The Spotlight Fellowship with Hedwig Holbrook Prize
- OneBeat fellowship in musical diplomacy
- GRAMMY nomination as co-artistic director of Palaver Strings
Administratively, she has shaped arts education through roles at the Buffalo Philharmonic's Marketing/Education Departments and Jazz at Lincoln Center's Concerts/Touring division. She founded the Ann Arbor arts collective Red Shoe Company and serves as a teaching artist for the Kennedy Center, University Musical Society, and Sphinx Organization. At Ithaca College, she mentors students through violin studio classes and orchestra leadership while performing on a 1977 Silvano Rebessi violin and "The Briar" viola by John Perrin Bean.
Professor Faran co-directs the ensemble Palaver Strings and forms half of the electroacoustic duo Persephone & the Phoenix, collaborating with luthiers to innovate violin design and pushing acoustic boundaries through experimental performance practices.
