William (Bill) Farber studied violin first in New Jersey, then in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His teachers included Gerard Matté, Samuel Applebaum, Sylvia Kay, Richard Luby, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Fredy Ostrovsky and William Waterhouse. Bill performed as Associate Concertmaster for the North Shore Symphony, Molloy College, and Concert Festival Orchestras in New York, and is Assistant Concertmaster for the Narragansett Bay Symphony and South County Chamber Orchestras in Rhode Island. He has also served as a board member and concerto competition judge for community orchestras. A graduate of Brown University, Bill worked internationally as a lighting director and cinematographer for motion pictures and television. After relocating to Rhode Island, he advised and mentored Brown’s student-run visual arts, theater, dance, and video performance and production groups. Bill can often be found riding a bicycle on roads and trails during warm weather, and in the woods - on skis or snowshoes - in the winter.