Ralph Farris
Birth Place: Boston
Latest News on Ralph Farris:
Ethel String Quartet To Premiere SEASONS NOW At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art (Nov 19, 2025)
HERMITAGE SUNSETS @ SELBY GARDENS to Open Sixth Season October 23 (Oct 3, 2025)
String Quartet ETHEL And Bassist Ron Carter to Present REFLECTIONS ON MONK AND BACH (Dec 16, 2024)
Ethel String Quartet To Premiere SEASONS NOW At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art (Nov 19, 2025)
HERMITAGE SUNSETS @ SELBY GARDENS to Open Sixth Season October 23 (Oct 3, 2025)
String Quartet ETHEL And Bassist Ron Carter to Present REFLECTIONS ON MONK AND BACH (Dec 16, 2024)
BIO
Multi-instrumentalist, composer-arranger, producer and conductor, Ralph Farris is a connecting force on the frontlines of new music. An award-winning graduate of The Juilliard School, and 3-time Tanglewood Fellow, Ralph is a founding member and Artistic Director of the genre-bending string quartet ETHEL. The onetime Music Director and Solo Fiddle of the Roger Daltrey Band, Ralph was an original company member of Disney's "The Lion King" on Broadway. He has performed in concert with such luminaries as Paul Simon, Pete Townsend, Leonard Bernstein, Alice Cooper, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road project, Sinead O’Conner, Joe Jackson and Lou Reed. His composition commissions include the Jerome Foundation; dance evangelists Monkeyhouse; Las Vegas darlings Jarrett & Raja; Walnut Hill School for the Arts; and the NEA. His scoring credits include Noelle Brower's “Everything is Ordinary;” Anika Burt's "Begin Again;" and Jehane Noujaim's "Pangea Day" industrial, and Aquila Theatre's "A Female Philoctetes."
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HERMITAGE SUNSETS @ SELBY GARDENS to Open Sixth Season October 23
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 3, 2025
The Hermitage Artist Retreat will open the sixth season of Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens on October 23, 2025, with a Town Hall discussion led by Artistic Director Andy Sandberg and a performance by Grammy Award-winning violist Ralph Farris.
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 3, 2025
The Hermitage Artist Retreat will open the sixth season of Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens on October 23, 2025, with a Town Hall discussion led by Artistic Director Andy Sandberg and a performance by Grammy Award-winning violist Ralph Farris.
String Quartet Ethel Releases 'Persist' Album with Flutist Allison Loggins-Hull
by Josh Sharpe - Dec 6, 2024
Acclaimed string quartet ETHEL has released their eighth album Persist, for which the group reconvened with the dynamic flutist Allison Loggins-Hull. Listen to it here.
by Josh Sharpe - Dec 6, 2024
Acclaimed string quartet ETHEL has released their eighth album Persist, for which the group reconvened with the dynamic flutist Allison Loggins-Hull. Listen to it here.
Composers Concordance Will Perform ETHEL Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2024
On Sunday, October 6th, 2024 at 5pm, Composers Concordance will present the renowned quartet ETHEL on a program of new music including several premieres.
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2024
On Sunday, October 6th, 2024 at 5pm, Composers Concordance will present the renowned quartet ETHEL on a program of new music including several premieres.
Acclaimed String Quartet ETHEL Unveils Fall 2024 Highlights
by Josh Sharpe - Aug 8, 2024
New York City’s ETHEL has announced its upcoming Fall 2024 activities centered around the release of its forthcoming album Persist on Sono Luminus Records (TBR 11.29.24).
by Josh Sharpe - Aug 8, 2024
New York City’s ETHEL has announced its upcoming Fall 2024 activities centered around the release of its forthcoming album Persist on Sono Luminus Records (TBR 11.29.24).
ETHEL String Quartet Reveals Fall 2024 Highlights
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 8, 2024
ETHEL String Quartet revealed its fall 2024 highlights including a New Sounds LIVE concert, a Southwest tour with Robert Mirabal, a Brooklyn Public Library performance, and more. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 8, 2024
ETHEL String Quartet revealed its fall 2024 highlights including a New Sounds LIVE concert, a Southwest tour with Robert Mirabal, a Brooklyn Public Library performance, and more. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.
Grammy Award-Winning ETHEL to Headline the Hermitage's 15th Annual Artful Lobster
by Stephi Wild - Oct 11, 2023
The Hermitage Artist Retreat announced that world-renowned and Grammy Award-winning string quartet ETHEL will headline the Hermitage’s signature fall fundraising event, “The Artful Lobster: An Outdoor Celebration!” on Saturday, November 11th from 11:30am to 2pm at the Hermitage campus on Manasota Key.
by Stephi Wild - Oct 11, 2023
The Hermitage Artist Retreat announced that world-renowned and Grammy Award-winning string quartet ETHEL will headline the Hermitage’s signature fall fundraising event, “The Artful Lobster: An Outdoor Celebration!” on Saturday, November 11th from 11:30am to 2pm at the Hermitage campus on Manasota Key.
Grammy-Award Winning ETHEL String Quartet to Bring Spirited Strings To Morris Museum in July
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 26, 2023
In their first Back Deck appearance since 2021, the string quartet ETHEL will bring their particular brand of contemporary music to Morris Museum on July 18.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 26, 2023
In their first Back Deck appearance since 2021, the string quartet ETHEL will bring their particular brand of contemporary music to Morris Museum on July 18.
Savant Records Reissues Jim Snidero's Acclaimed 'Strings'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Jul 21, 2021
Snidero took the opportunity to enhance the 2001 tracks in spots, adding the masterful bowed bass of David Finck.
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Jul 21, 2021
Snidero took the opportunity to enhance the 2001 tracks in spots, adding the masterful bowed bass of David Finck.
The Next Festival of Emerging Artists Launches 'Next Fest Connects'
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 12, 2020
Faced with the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, The Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the unique contemporary music festival founded in 2013 by composer, conductor, and bassist Peter Askim, acted quickly to address the needs of musicians by forming a new component: Next Fest Connects.
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 12, 2020
Faced with the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, The Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the unique contemporary music festival founded in 2013 by composer, conductor, and bassist Peter Askim, acted quickly to address the needs of musicians by forming a new component: Next Fest Connects.
Henning Rubsam Announces The New SENSEDANCE SUNDAYS
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 3, 2020
After the overwhelming feedback Henning Rübsam received upon releasing his 2015 work 'And there was Morning' online via his YouTube channel DanceArtJoy this past Sunday, he decided to make one archival work of his company SENSEDANCE public for free on every Sunday during the current crisis.
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 3, 2020
After the overwhelming feedback Henning Rübsam received upon releasing his 2015 work 'And there was Morning' online via his YouTube channel DanceArtJoy this past Sunday, he decided to make one archival work of his company SENSEDANCE public for free on every Sunday during the current crisis.
Lakewood Cultural Center Presents ETHEL's Documerica
by Stephi Wild - Jan 31, 2020
a?oeETHEL's Documerica,a?? presented by the Lakewood Cultural Center at 7:30 p.m. on March 13, is a multimedia concert that melds multiple-screen video projections with original music by some of today's top composers, performed with electrifying virtuosity by the indie-classical quartet ETHEL. The projections showcase evocative imagery from a?oeProject Documerica,a?? a massive archive of photographs commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s, soon after the agency was established in the wake of elevated concern about environmental pollution. Through new music, ETHEL explores this compelling snapshot of a tumultuous era that powerfully connects to today's environmental and social issues.
by Stephi Wild - Jan 31, 2020
a?oeETHEL's Documerica,a?? presented by the Lakewood Cultural Center at 7:30 p.m. on March 13, is a multimedia concert that melds multiple-screen video projections with original music by some of today's top composers, performed with electrifying virtuosity by the indie-classical quartet ETHEL. The projections showcase evocative imagery from a?oeProject Documerica,a?? a massive archive of photographs commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s, soon after the agency was established in the wake of elevated concern about environmental pollution. Through new music, ETHEL explores this compelling snapshot of a tumultuous era that powerfully connects to today's environmental and social issues.
National Sawdust Has Released December Schedule
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 6, 2019
2019-20 Artists-in-Residence Kinds of Kings present Real Loud, the first of four concerts in their Equilibrium and Disturbance series String quartet ETHEL presents fourth chapter of their HomeBaked Project, an initiative showcasing emerging composers, Canadian Brass presents 50th anniversary of their annual holiday celebration
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 6, 2019
2019-20 Artists-in-Residence Kinds of Kings present Real Loud, the first of four concerts in their Equilibrium and Disturbance series String quartet ETHEL presents fourth chapter of their HomeBaked Project, an initiative showcasing emerging composers, Canadian Brass presents 50th anniversary of their annual holiday celebration
THE RIVER Will Come to the WYO Theater
by Stephi Wild - Nov 1, 2019
The WYO Theater welcomes New York based contemporary string quartet ETHEL and award-winning Native American artist Robert Mirabal to the stage Friday, November 22 at 7:30pm when they present their inspired collaboration, The River.
by Stephi Wild - Nov 1, 2019
The WYO Theater welcomes New York based contemporary string quartet ETHEL and award-winning Native American artist Robert Mirabal to the stage Friday, November 22 at 7:30pm when they present their inspired collaboration, The River.
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