Early Life and Career
Farrand was born in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to missionary parents, and grew up in the Philippines. After returning to the United States, he earned bachelor's degrees in piano performance and in composing music. He worked as a music editor, but became frustrated with working with music printed on paper, and worked for two years on a notation package for the Apple II series of computers, which later became Polywriter. Later, working with Coda Music Technology, Farrand created an award-winning, high-end desktop publishing music notation software package for music notation called Finale. Now owned by MakeMusic, Finale was the industry standard for many years and is still one of the leading music notation software packages today. Farrand lives with his wife Lynette and his daughter Elizabeth in Springfield, Missouri.
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