Thomas Faracco
- Email Address: tfaracco@rider.edu
- Phone: (609) 921-7100 x8257
- Office: Erdman Hall 16
- Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540
Born in New York City, Thomas Faracco holds degrees in organ, conducting and voice from Westminster Choir College. He continued vocal studies at Indiana University with the famed soprano and teacher Margaret Harshaw.
A frequent oratorio and concert soloist, he has appeared with a number of orchestras throughout the country including the St. Louis, Minnesota and Vermont symphonies as well as the Cincinnati Opera and the Marlboro Music Festival. Chamber music appearances include a world premiere of Four Cavalier Settings for tenor and guitar by Milton Babbitt at Merkin Hall in New York and the Ravel Chansons Madecasses with the Lyrica Chamber Ensemble of Chatham, a performance which was hailed by the Newark Star-Ledger as the best chamber music performance of a single work during the season.
Since 1992, Mr. Faracco has been an artist and faculty member at the Sommer Musik Akademie in Pitten, Austria, where he participates in opera, lieder and oratorio performances and gives master classes in vocal technique and interpretation.
Television and recordings include a Christmas special featuring music from the Victorian era filmed in the historic Ballantine House in Newark for New Jersey Public TV. He is the tenor soloist on the Westminster recording of the complete Bach motets with Wilhelm Ehmann and has been heard on National Public Radio in performances of Boris Godunov and Turandot with the St. Louis Symphony.
Active in the National Association of Teachers of Singing, he was the Eastern Region Governor and program chair for the 2000 National Convention in Philadelphia.
Formerly on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mr. Faracco is an Associate Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College of Rider University and Chair of the Department of Voice and Piano.
