“a grand romantic” Review of London Recitals
the pianist who plays "From the Heart"
The News-Times (Photo Caption)
“an artist of generous instincts, considerable technique... She brought to her tasks in the Wigmore Hall a refreshing spontaneity, an aura of affection...an exciting, full-blooded commitment. Few recitalists for instance offer Ginastera’s Danzas Argentinas to London audiences, and fewer still put them across with such panache, such rhythmic verve, and such a command of colour.....”
-Review of London Recitals
Critic Christopher Grier
“beauty of tone....sensitivity and panache.... expressiveness.... strength... Miss Farewell was amply rewarded by an audience won over by her charm and undemonstrative sincerity as well as her undoubted pianistic powers.”
-Review of London Recitals Critic William Hook
Du Maurier
“highly musical”
“lyrical and lovely”
“flash and fire”...”power and a sense of big design...sweeping and splashy in the virtuoso tradition of Liszt and Rachmaninoff” The News-Times
the “audience sat in rapt silence” The Redding Pilot
“a musical affinity for the Beethoven” The Advocate
“Critic’s choice” D. Max Garrison
“That’s the kind of playing I love.” Lili Kraus
“lyrical and lovely”
“flash and fire”...”power and a sense of big design...sweeping and splashy in the virtuoso tradition of Liszt and Rachmaninoff” The News-Times
the “audience sat in rapt silence” The Redding Pilot
“a musical affinity for the Beethoven” The Advocate
“Critic’s choice” D. Max Garrison
“That’s the kind of playing I love.” Lili Kraus
"THROW OUT THE TV" (Headline)
“You missed probably the most sophisticated, yet simple, lovely and elegant entertainer ever to gift us with a visit to Southampton - the multitalented, Vassar-graduated, Manhattan School of Music-trained pianist, Jeanne Farewell.
The beautiful, poised and elegant Ms. Farewell presented a self-narrated, educational and historical lecture-piano recital based on art and literature at the Levitas Center for the Arts co-sponsored by the Rogers Memorial Library and the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday, January 18. To Lord Byron’s poem...,Jeanne delightfully curated her totally rapt audience...highlighting and exhibiting the differences in each musician’s styles and personas.... Jeanne charmingly interpreted their psyches sincerely with her indubitably pianistic powers....
Not only is Jeanne Farewell a prodigious pianist, she’s a renaissance wonder of our contemporary world: an artist of substantial renown, an illustrator, a multi-published author of stories and essays....
I asked Jeanne how she finds the time to devote to her incredible potpourri of interests. Her reply was a surprise: “I don’t have a cell phone and I don’t watch television.”
Well, just maybe we all should take a hint from Ms. Farewell and get off our phones and turn our televisions off and see how much more enrichment our lives can glean.”
Southampton Press, Letters January 24, 2008 Milton C.Enstine Jr.
The beautiful, poised and elegant Ms. Farewell presented a self-narrated, educational and historical lecture-piano recital based on art and literature at the Levitas Center for the Arts co-sponsored by the Rogers Memorial Library and the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday, January 18. To Lord Byron’s poem...,Jeanne delightfully curated her totally rapt audience...highlighting and exhibiting the differences in each musician’s styles and personas.... Jeanne charmingly interpreted their psyches sincerely with her indubitably pianistic powers....
Not only is Jeanne Farewell a prodigious pianist, she’s a renaissance wonder of our contemporary world: an artist of substantial renown, an illustrator, a multi-published author of stories and essays....
I asked Jeanne how she finds the time to devote to her incredible potpourri of interests. Her reply was a surprise: “I don’t have a cell phone and I don’t watch television.”
Well, just maybe we all should take a hint from Ms. Farewell and get off our phones and turn our televisions off and see how much more enrichment our lives can glean.”
Southampton Press, Letters January 24, 2008 Milton C.Enstine Jr.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
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In Europe and the U.K.:
London: Wigmore Hall Purcell Room at the Royal Festival Hall complex Scotland: University of Edinburgh Glasgow: Henry Wood Hall Vienna, Austria: Schubertsaal Cologne, Germany: Belgian House In China: Beijing Conservatory of Music Shanghai Conservatory of Music Shanghai Concert Hall ________________________________ SALON CONCERT SERIES Performances in private homes in New York and Connecticut 
Du Maurier
**The program at Yale featured the world premier of Fantasia and Fugue for piano by British composer Kerry R. Scott. The Philipstown Concerts program featured the world premier of Mr. Scott’s Colonial Suite, transcribed for the piano by Jeanne Farewell. 
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DuMaurier
In New York City:
Steinway Hall Kosciuscko Foundation (as part of the Lecture Series “Chopin, George Sand, and Their Circle,” with David Dubal) American Landmark Festivals: Federal Hall & Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace English-Speaking Union Instituto Cervantes “In the Gardens of Spain” series, recorded live on WQXR Radio in New York City YWCA Holy Trinity Concert Series SAMPLE PROGRAMS
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