Discipline: Music Composition

Raymond Fahrner

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982, 1988

Ray Fahrner is an award-winning composer, conductor, database designer, writer and arts administrator, living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His eclectic compositions include Colleges of Funk, for jazz band; CIRCLE: A Circus for Mime and Orchestra; and ten works for chamber chorus. As a choral conductor, he has directed the Cambridge Chamber Singers for 26 years, and is renowned for his innovative programming. He is the founding Director, Office of Performing Arts, for the Colleges of the Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts.


Studios

Phi Beta

Raymond Fahrner worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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