Sharon Farber is an Israeli composer. She was born in Bat Yam, Israel.
Early career
Farber began her musical career at the age of seven, as a classical pianist. After graduating from Thelma-Yelin High School for the Arts, she served in the Israel Defense Forces, and later worked as a theater composer and musical director in Israel. She won the first prize in Colors in Dance in 1992 for her music for choreography. In 1994, she moved to Boston, USA, upon receiving a scholarship from Berklee College Of Music. During her studies, she won the first prize in the yearly Professional Writing Division Concert with her first string quartet. After graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1997 she moved to Los Angeles to begin her professional career. Miss Farber was the recipient of the prestigious Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Internship in Film Scoring, as well as the Mentorship program of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, on which she currently serves as a board member. Farber's first professional work in Los Angeles was orchestrating and writing additional music for composer Shirley Walker.
Film and television music
In the film and TV industry, Farber has been working with companies such as NBC, Showtime, as well as writing music for independent features and other projects. She won the Telly Award in 1998 for best score for the docu-drama series California 2000 and her work can also be heard at the Museum of Sacramento, as part of the Museum's permanent exhibition. Her orchestral score for When Nietzsche Wept, was released October 2008, and she has recently completed the score for Folie a Deux.
Concert music
Farber has been writing concert and choir music in parallel to her film-scoring career, and has many international premieres and performances to her credit. Such performances include The Third Mother/Mothers’ Lament, in memory of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, which was world premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, under the direction of Grant Gershon, and won her the First Prize in the Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition in 2007. ASHKINA, featuring Omar Faruk Tekbilek, premiered in New York, October 2004, and has had many performances since. Her commissioned piece Translucent Rocks was premiered by Israeli Chamber Orchestra in October 2007. She was announced Composer in Residence of the 2009 Beverly Hills International Music Festival, and her film music has been featured time and again on "From Stage To Cinema" concerts. Her concerto for cello, orchestra and narrator has been performed many times and toured the Pacific Northwest with cellist Amit Peled and Maestro Yaniv Attar.
Works
Bestemming - For cello, orchestra and narrator, based on the like of Holocaust survivor and hero of the Dutch resistance, Curt Lowens. Premiered at SABAN theater in Los Angeles, 2014. Commissioned by the Glendale Philharmonic and cellist Ruslan Buryikov.
Children of Light" - commissioned and premiered by the National Children Chorus.
My Beloved - Commission for a new work for women’s choir and chamber ensemble, premiered in Israel, December 2004.,
From Stage to Cinema concert #1 & 2 - Featured composer at a concert series of Film Music arranged for Oboe Quartet, with Tom Boyd, Oboe, and Marcelo Secena, piano
Israel Chamber Orchestra commission: "Translucent Rocks", which opened up the 2007-20088 Orchestra’s Season, October 2007
Piano Ballad - Commissioned by pianist Hagai Yodan. Premiered in Israel, June 2007
To Always Remember - A song cycle for Soprano & piano, Premiered 2005 in Berlin, Germany, and had its Los Angeles soprano and Chamber Ensemble version premier May 29, 2007.
Foundation for Universal Sacred Music - Commission for a Chamber orchestra and Choir work, premiered in New York, October 2004, with repeated performance in NY and Boston
Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble - Composed and produced music for the ensemble’s event
The Jewish Symphony Orchestra - Commission to compose a new work for the orchestra. Premiered at the "Women Composers Concert", 2004, Los Angeles
