Samuel Ferrer 費利亞

Double bassist Samuel Ferrer joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic at the start of the 2002/03 season. Having been highly active as a freelancer in New York City, Ferrer has performed in Carnegie Hall with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the American Composer’s Orchestra and the New York Pops, among others. He has also worked regularly with such ensembles as the New York Chamber Symphony, New York City Ballet, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Westchester Philharmonic. His chamber music performances with the new music groups, Ensemble 21 and Ensemble Sospeso, received critically acclaimed reviews by The New York Times. In addition, he has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, Riverside Symphony, and the Florida Orchestra.

While on tour with the Orpheus in 1998, Sam Ferrer participated in highly publicised performances at the Hanoi Opera House, marking the first concerts by an American ensemble in Vietnam since the war.

He has also held principal bass chairs with the Sarasota Opera Festival and Key West Symphony Orchestra, both in Florida, and served on the faculty of the Kinhaven Summer Music School in Vermont.

Originally from northern California, Samuel Ferrer graduated from the University of Southern California and Yale University, where he received the Slam Stewart Outstanding Bassist Award. While a graduate student at Yale, he was also a member of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and as a recipient of the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, studied for one year in Paris with the virtuoso and pedagogical author, Francois Rabbath. His summer studies included the European Mozart Festival (Poland), Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara), Waterloo Music Festival (Princeton University) and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Connecticut), to which he was re-invited as a guest artist. His principal teachers include Donald Palma, Paul Ellison and John Clayton, and also studied privately with Ed Barker and Dennis Trembly.

Mr. Ferrer plays on a modern double bass by Daniel Hachez, who won the gold-medal luthier prize at the 2003 Convention of the International Society of Double Bassists.

低音大提琴手費利亞於2002/03樂季加入香港管弦樂團。費利亞一直以自由樂手身分活躍於紐約市樂壇，曾與奧爾菲斯室樂團、聖路加樂團、美國作曲家樂團、紐約普及樂團等在卡奈基音樂廳表演，又曾與紐約室樂交響樂團、紐約市芭蕾舞團、布魯克林管弦樂團、威徹斯特管弦樂團、河畔交響樂團等合作奏樂。他與廿一合奏團和蘇斯披索合奏團這些新音樂團體的室樂演奏，獲《紐約時報》擊節讚賞。此外，他又曾在新澤西交響樂團、主要莫扎特音樂節樂團、音樂思考合奏團和佛羅里達樂團的音樂會上獻藝。

他與奧爾菲斯室樂團於1998年出訪外國時，曾到越南河內歌劇院演出，事前獲高度宣傳，成了越戰後第一個在當地舉行音樂會的美國合奏團。

費利亞曾在多個樂團擔任首席，包括佛羅里達州的薩拉蘇達歌劇節樂團和基斯特交響樂團，並會繼續在佛蒙特的京哈凡夏令音樂學校任教。

費利亞出生於美國北加州，畢業於南加州大學和耶魯大學。在耶魯就讀時，贏得斯度域傑出低音大提琴獎，又是哈特弗德交響樂團的一員，並獲選為「扶輪學者」，有一年時間到巴黎隨音樂名家兼教育理論作者勒伯夫深造。在夏季時，他仍孜孜不倦地學習，到過波蘭參加歐洲莫扎特節、到聖巴巴拉西方音樂學院進修、到普林斯頓大學參加滑鐵盧音樂節；參加了康涅狄格州的諾福克室樂節後，更獲邀翌年成為客席表演者。費利亞的老師主要是柏爾瑪、艾利遜和基萊頓。