Bandwidth Residency
Nate Farrington, Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, and Teddy Abrams
Join us for a performance that draws on everything from classical repertoire to contemporary influences; traditional formats to experimental approaches. Over one intensive week, Curtis students will build a concert entirely from their own ideas, with guidance from Nate Farrington (Principal Bass, Los Angeles Opera), Gabriel Globus-Hoenich (Founder/Director, People of Earth), and Teddy Abrams (Music Director, Louisville Orchestra; Composer)—original arrangements, new compositions, multimedia integration, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Working quickly from concept to performance, they’ll learn to trust their creative instincts and put aside perfectionism. The work will demand their technical mastery while asking them to reach beyond it. New music, reimagined classics, poetry, staging, multimedia, or whatever emerges from pushing their creative curiosity.
Farrington, Abrams, and Globus-Hoenich have been making music together since their student days at Curtis. Through their trio Nate’s World and larger ensemble Musicians from Garden Music, they create programs where rigorous classical training meets their boundless musical interests. Every concert is built fresh and shaped by what’s inspiring them and their collaborators in the moment. No two performances are the same. They bring that same approach to Curtis students through the Bandwidth Residency. For these artists, bandwidth means the capacity to transmit and receive without limits.
Please note: Performance programs are subject to last-minute changes and cancellations.
Program
| This program is TBD due to the exploratory nature of the residency. |
Artists
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Nathan Farrington Double Bass
Nathan Farrington (Double Bass ’06) has been the principal bassist for LA Opera since 2016.
He regularly appears in the bass sections of many of America’s top orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony.
He also pursues chamber music and solo opportunities avidly. He has appeared at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Olympic Music Festival, ChamberFest Cleveland, and at the Da Camera Society. Nathan also plays guitar and often sings and plays operatic arias and folk songs alongside his bass playing.
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Teddy Abrams Conductor
Teddy Abrams (Conducting ’08) is the music director of the Louisville Orchestra and music director and conductor of the Britt Festival Orchestra. A tireless advocate for the power of music, Abrams has fostered interdisciplinary collaborations with organizations including the Louisville Ballet, the Center for Interfaith Relations, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Speed Art Museum, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. His rap-opera, The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, celebrated Louisville’s hometown hero with an all-star cast that included Rhiannon Giddens and Jubilant Sykes. Abrams’ work with the Louisville Orchestra has been profiled on CBS News Sunday Morning, NPR, and in the Wall Street Journal.
An accomplished pianist and clarinetist, Abrams has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras—including play-conducting the Ravel Piano Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony and the Jacksonville Symphony—and has performed chamber music with the St. Petersburg String Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Time for Three, and John Adams.
Adams was a protégé of Michael Tilson Thomas from the age of eleven, and studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller and Ford Lallerstedt at Curtis, and with David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival. Abrams is also an award-winning composer and a passionate educator. His Education Concerts with New World Symphony (featuring the world premiere of one of Abrams’ own orchestral works) were webcast to hundreds of schools throughout South Florida.
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Gabriel Globus-Hoenich Percussion
Percussionist Gabriel Globus-Hoenich blends a multitude of musical influences together in his work as a performer and educator. A Montreal native, Gabriel is now based in New York City where his career continues to reflect a deep love for the worlds of jazz, classical music, and world music. Gabriel has performed on drumset and percussion with a wide variety of artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Morgan James, Jim James, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Yuja Wang, Omara Portuondo, Telmary Diaz, Roberto Fonseca, Tirso Duarte, Steve Hackman, Tessa Lark, the Philly Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, among others. He collaborates frequently with Teddy Abrams and the Sixth Floor Trio, serving as principal percussionist and education director at the trio’s chamber music festival, GardenMusic, in South Miami. An active composer and arranger, Gabriel has written orchestral arrangements for Grammy-award winners Sam Bush, Cory Henry, and Sara Jarosz, as well as Achilles LiarmakopolousIn 2017 Gabriel founded People of Earth, a 13 person Latin fusion group filled with some of NYC’s best musicians representing a myriad of countries. People of Earth has performed at Disney Hall, New World Center for the Arts, Mann Center, and Kennedy Center, among others. For more information visit www.peopleofearthmusic.com
In addition to his work in the orchestral and jazz music worlds, Gabriel has completed extensive world percussion studies having studied Afro-Brazilian percussion in Salvador, Bahia with Gabi Guedes and Mario Pam, as well as Cuban percussion with Girardo Piloto, Rociel Riveron, and Adonis Panter.
Gabriel continues to work as a teaching artist for the 92nd Street Y and Marquis Studios. He was formerly a teaching artist with Play On Philly! as well as musician-in-residence at The Please Touch Museum. He is a 2008 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Don Liuzzi and Robert van Sice.
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- Date Jan 31, 2026
- Time 7:30 p.m.
- Location Curtis Institute of Music, Gould Rehearsal Hall