Sharon Farber, originally from Israel, has received critical acclaim as a composer in the Concert world as well as that of film and television. She brings to her music influences from her Middle Eastern heritage as well as her extensive knowledge of Classical and Western music.

Sharon began her musical career at the age of seven, as a classical pianist. After graduating from Thelma-Yellin High School for the Arts, she served in the Israeli Defense Force and later worked as a theater composer and musical director in Israel. She won the first prize in Colors in Dance in 1992 for her music for choreography. In 1994, she moved to Boston upon receiving a scholarship from Berklee College Of Music, where she won the first prize in the yearly Professional Writing Division concert with her first string quartet. After graduating summa cum laude in 1997 (majoring in both Classical Composition and Film Scoring), she moved to Los Angeles to begin her professional career. Miss Farber was the recipient of the prestigious Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Internship in Film Scoring, as well as the Mentorship program of the Society of Composers and Lyricists on which she currently serves as a board member. In addition, she completed the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in 1997.

Miss Farber has been writing concert and choir music in parallel to her film-scoring career. Her chorale composition, The Third Mother/Mothers' Lament, written in dedication to Professor Judea and Ruth Pearl, in honor and memory of their son, slain reporter Daniel Pearl, was world premiered by the distinguished Los Angeles Master Chorale, under the direction of Maestro Grant Gershon at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, and recent concert work for mixed choir and chamber ensemble, ASHKINA, commissioned by the Foundation For Universal Sacred Music, was premiered in New York, October 2004. My Beloved for 2 sopranos, 2 altos and chamber ensemble was premiered in Israel, December 2004 and her work for choreography was premiered April 2004, in Los Angeles. Her song cycle [no comma] To Always Remember for soprano and piano premiered in Berlin this last May.

Miss Farber has been commissioned by The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, the Rainbow of Life dance ensemble, and The Jewish Symphony Orchestra, who premiered her works for soprano, choir and orchestra in March of 2004. Her song cycle, Time, for soprano [CUT-voice] and piano, was premiered in Los Angeles in May 2004, and she has recently been commissioned, again, by the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity to compose a new work to be premiered October 2005.

In the film and TV industry, Miss Farber has been working with such prestigious companies as NBC (EMMY Award Winning TV series "Starting Over"), Showtime ("In Class Of His Own," starring Lou Diamond Phillips, which received many awards) "They Call Me Sirr", starring Michael Clarke Duncan ("The Green Mile," which received many awards as well) and WB ("Superman & Batman"), in addition to writing music for independent features and other projects. She won the Telly Award in 1998 for best score for the docudrama series "California 2000" and her work can also be heard at the Museum of Sacramento, as part of the Museum's permanent exhibition.

Sharon is an affiliated artist with The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, and is music director of Temple of the Arts in Beverly Hills, CA.