Elizabeth Farr

Associate Professor of Early Music, Organ/Harpsichord

Email: farre@colorado.edu
Office Location: Room C190, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-492-4802
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

Elizabeth Farr specializes in keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries. She performs on the harpsichord, organ, and pedal-harpsichord. She is on the faculty of the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder where she teaches organ and harpsichord and directs the Early Music Ensemble. She holds the Bachelor of Music degree in organ from Stetson University (Florida), the Master of Music degree in organ from The Juilliard School (New York), and the Doctor of Musical arts degree in harpsichord from the University of Michigan. Her teachers include organists Paul Jenkins and Vernon de Tar, and harpsichordist Edward Parmentier.

Elizabeth Farr has won a number of organ and harpsichord playing competitions, including the National Organ Playing Competition (Ft. Wayne, Ind.), the Young Artists’ Organ Playing Competition (Harvard University, Boston) and the Magnum Opus Harpsichord Competition (Michigan). In addition to solo recitals, she performs with chamber ensembles, and also with larger orchestral ensembles as a concerto soloist. She has performed with the Grande Bande at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall (New York), Ars Musica (Michigan), and locally in Colorado with the Boulder Bach Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, Boulder Philharmonic and Diverse Passions. She has also performed with Dutch recorder artist Eva Legêne, Baroque violinist Veronika Skuplik, and viola da gamba virtuoso Enid Sutherland. Elizabeth Farr has concertized in Europe as well as the United States, including the Festtage für Alte Musik in Schlewig-Holstein (Glücksburg), Schloss Bad Krozingen, and repeat engagements at the famous 17th-century Arp Schnitger organ in the Ludgerikirche in Norden, Germany.