composer
RICHARD CARRICK
Richard Carrick conducting Either/Or and Newspeak at MATA Festival 2008
2012-2013 SEASON
July 14, 2012 SCOTLAND
Richard Carrick’s Harmonixity, european premiere
World Saxophone Conference, St. Andrews
July 15, 2012 ITALY
Richard Carrick’s Notebook, Bedside, european premiere
Tony Arnold - soprano, Aiyun Huang - percussion, Tom Rosencrantz - piano
Maccagno, Italian Alps
November 17, 2012, 5PM
Richard Carrick’s Harmonixity
Flushing Library, Queens
December 22, 8pm
Memory from Time for improvising quartet
Premiere concert of KNOT Quartet -Richard Carrick-electric guitar, Jin Hi Kim-komongo,
David Wallace-viola, James Ilgenfritz-bass
The Stone, NYC
Spring 2013
Adjunct Associate Professor of Composition
Columbia University Music Department
Teaching the Graduate Composition Seminar
January 16, 2013 Philadelphia
performing John Cage’s Extended Lullaby’s
EIther/Or
presented by Bowerbird
Philadelphia Museum of Art
January 28, 2013
Richard Carrick’s Sub-merge
World Premiere for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon.
Richard piano soloist
with DZ4 Wind Quartet Brad Balliett, Alicia Lee, Alma Maria Liebrecht and Arthur Sato.
Greenwich Music House, NYC
January 31, 2013
Richard Carrick’s Sub-merge
for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon.
Richard piano soloist
with DZ4 Wind Quartet Brad Balliett, Alicia Lee, Alma Maria Liebrecht and Arthur Sato.
Uptown Mansion, NYC
February 4, 2013
conducting Giacinto Scelsi’s Pranam II
Either/Or
Ralph Kaminsky memorial concert
Merkin Hall, NYC
March 1-7, 2013 JAPAN
conducting and performing
with the Teaching Orchestra of Tokyo
performance in Iwaki City, Japan
March 16, 2013 8PM
NY Premiere of Masculin Feminin
String Noise: Pauline Kim Harris, Conrad Harris
DiMenna Center, NYC
April 4, 2013
conducting dichroic seventeen
performing piano on US Premiere of murmurs
Rebecca Saunders Portraits Concert
Either/Or
Miller Theatre, NYC
May 3, 2013
performing Steve Reich’s Four Organs
Either/Or
Firehouse Space, Brooklyn
May 30, 31, 2013 8PM
Richard Carrick - The Veins of Marble (May 31, US Premiere)
Richard performing premieres by Coleman, Masaoka, Jin Hi Kim, and more.
The Kitchen, NYC
June 8, 2013, 8PM
Richard Carrick’s Adagios for String Orchestra, World Premiere
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn
with Toomai Quintet
St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn
August 31, 2013 Leipzig
Richard Carrick’s Orgo, World Premiere
Part of the Cage 100 Party Pieces Project, 100 new works
presented by FZML in Leipzig and New York City
2011-2012 SEASON
Fall 2011
Adjunct Associate Professor of Composition
Columbia University Music Department
Teaching the Graduate Composition Seminar
September 9, 2011, 8:30pm
Richard Carrick’s Shadow Flow
performed by John Pickford Richards
Richard performing Hans Thomalla’s Piano Counterpart
September 16, 2011 10pm
performing Cage’s Musicircus on Guitar
The Stone, NYC
October 1, 2011 4pm
Richard Carrick’s La Scene Miniature Quartet
La Maison Français of NYU, NYC
October 3, 2011 7:20pm
Richard moderating the pre-concert discussion
Red Light New Music
Symphony Space, NYC
October 12, 2011 7:30pm
Richard Carrick’s The Flow Cycle for Strings (complete performance)
CD Release concert
EIther/Or
Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC
October 14, 2011 7:30pm
Richard Carrick’s Stone Guitars for String Quartet and tape
First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn Heights
October 17, 2011 7:30pm
Richard Carrick’s “à cause du soleil” Flow Trio
Richard is also conducting the US premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s smear
and performing Hans Thomalla’s Piano Counterpart
October 19, 2011
Richard presents his music to the Graduate Composition Seminar at
Columbia University, NYC
November 12, 2011
Richard interviewing George Lewis live
George Lewis Portraits Concert
Miller Theatre, NYC
November 12, 2011
Richard Carrick’s Duo Flow
Pala Garcia violin and John Popham cello
Schare Recital Hall, Rutger's University, NJ
November 19, 2011 FLORIDA
Richard Carrick’s Adagios for String Quintet
Bak Middle School for the Arts
1725 Echo Lake Blvd
West Palm Beach, FL 33407
January 13, 2012 BERKELEY
Richard Carrick’s Adagios for String Quartet
Berkley, CA
2012 CD Release
Richard Carrick’s A-Ka
I Never Metaguitar 2
Cleenfeed Label, complied by Elliott Sharp
February 20, 2012 LONDON
Richard lectured on his music at City University of London.
March 1, 2012 NYC
Richard Carrick’s Harmonixity - preview
Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn
March 6, 2012 SAN ANTONIO
Richard Carrick’s Duo Flow
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
March 8, 2012 SAN ANTONIO
Richard Carrick’s Duo Flow
Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center, San Antonio, TX
March 16 2012 ARIZONA
Richard Carrick’s Harmonixity - world premiere
North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference
Tempe, Arizona State University
March 18, 2012 3pm BINGHAMTON
Richard Carrick’s “in flow”
Musica Nova, Casadesus Recital Hall, Binghamton University
March 22, 2012 NYC
conducting Karin Rehnqvist’s Portraits Concert
April 2, 2012 INDIANAPOLIS
Richard Carrick’s La Scene Miniature Quartet
Ariana Kim, violin, faculty recital
University of Indianapolis, Indiana
April 12, 2012 MARYLAND
Richard Carrick’s Notebook, Bedside, revised version premiere
SoundSCAPE: Tony Arnold - soprano, Aiyun Huang - percussion, Tom Rosencrantz - piano
Fine Recital Hall, UMBC
April 26, 2012 NYC
performing a World premiere by George Lewis, written for Either/Or,
and works by John Zorn, Anthony Coleman and others
Either/Or Spring Festival
April 27, 2012 NYC
Conducting Gerard Grisey’s Periods
and performing works by George Lewis, Rebecca Saunders and Elliott Sharp
Either/Or Spring Festival
May 8, 2012 SAN ANTONIO
Richard Carrick’s La Scene Miniature Quartet, west coast premiere
Trinity University
May 9, 2012 SAN ANTONIO
Richard Carrick’s La Scene Miniature Quartet
McNay Art Museum
May 17, 2012 NYC
Performing Lied and Piano Counterpart
Hans Thomalla Portrait Concert
Either/Or
German Consulate General
June 9, 2012 4-7pm NYC
Richard Carrick’s Harmonixity, East Coast Premiere
July 14, 2012 SCOTLAND
Richard Carrick’s Harmonixity, european premiere
World Saxophone Conference, St. Andrews
July 15, 2012 Alaska
Richard Carrick’s Sonic Tapestry Communication
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
July 16, 2012 Alaska
Richard Carrick’s Sonic Tapestry Communication
University of Alaska Great Hall and Noel Library
July 17, 2012 ITALY
Richard Carrick’s Notebook, Bedside, european premiere
Tony Arnold - soprano, Aiyun Huang - percussion, Tom Rosencrantz - piano
Maccagno, Italian Alps
2010-2011 SEASON
July 11, 2011
Richard Carrick’s chamber arrangements of West Side Story for the
New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble
Caramoor Music Festival
June 30, 2011 San Francisco
Richard Carrick’s Sonic Tapestry Communication
Brick and Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
June 29, 2011
Richard Carrick’s Sonic Tapestry Communication, world premiere
Galapagos Arts Space, Brooklyn, NY
June 11, 2011 Philadelphia, PA
Either/Or performing Morton Feldman’s Crippled Symmetry
Feldman Festival, presented by Bowerbird
June 10, 2011 10PM
Richard Carrick’s Moroccan Flow
also performing Radulescu’s “l’exil intérieur”
with Alex Waterman
The Stone, NYC
June 2 and 3, 2011
Richard Carrick’s Stone Guitars - solo guitar version
and featuring works by Radulescu, Scelsi, Cendo, Nono, Ashley, Reich, Lewis, Gee, and Byrne.
40th Year Anniversary at The Kitchen, NYC
May 18, 2011
performing Radulescu’s “l’exil intérieur”
with Alex Waterman
Hoff Barthelson Contemporary Festival
Scarsdale, NY
April 15, 2011 8 PM
Either/Or - Chaya Czernowin - Composer Series
Richard conducting
Dam sheon hachol and Winter Songs II: Stones
Miller Theater, New York City
April 5, 2011 WISCONSIN
Richard Carrick’s une
Calliope Duo, Haas Fine Arts Center, Eau Claire
April 4, 2011 MINNEAPOLIS
Richard Carrick’s une
Calliope Duo, Sateren Auditorium
February 24, 2011
Richard Carrick’s Adagios for String Quintet
Toomai Quintet, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
January 30, 2011
Richard Carrick’s Stone Guitars
Richard, electric guitar
Composers perform Composers Marathon, The Drom, NYC
January 21, 2011 WISCONSIN
Richard Carrick’s une
Calliope Duo, Haas Fine Arts Center, Eau Claire
January 24, 2011 TEXAS
Richard Carrick’s une
Calliope Duo, College of Music, Voertman Hall, U of North Texas
January 21, 2011 SAN DIEGO
Richard Carrick’s une
Calliope Duo, UCSD Alumni Festival, San Diego, CA
January 20, 2011 3 PM, SAN DIEGO
Richard Carrick’s Stone Guitars
Either/Or: Richard Carrick and David Shively
UCSD Alumni Festival, San Diego, CA
Spring, 2011
New York University - Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Adjunct Faculty - teaching the History of 20th Century Music
November 22, 2010 7 PM
Richard playing guitar in Helmut Lachenmann’s Salut für Caudwell.
Richard conducting two works by David Brynjar Franzson
The Tank, New York City
November 5, 2010
Richard improvising on piano
with Chris Cochrane, Annie Gosfield, Miguel Frasconi and Roger Kleier.
Roulette, SoHo, New York City
October 21, 2010 8:30 PM SAO PAOLO, BRAZIL
Richard Carrick’s: Moroccan Flow
Rohan de Saraam, cello, SESC Vila Marinan Auditorium
September 23, 2010 BUFFALO
Richard Carrick’s: Les Scènes Acoustiques
Magnus Andersson, guitar, SUNY Buffalo, NY
September 19, 2010 7 PM
Richard Carrick’s Stone Guitars
MIVOS Quartet, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York City
August 4, 2010
Composer/Pianist Richard Carrick premieres four new works.
Stone Organ
Descretize,
Transitional Objects
Stone Guitars
with special guests Margaret Lancaster, David Wallace and Josh Modney
The Stone, New York City
2009-10 SEASON
Spring, 2010
Visiting Artist in Residence
The New School, Music Department, NYC
June 21, 2010, ITALY
Richard Carrick’s: Les Scènes Acoustiques
Magnus Andersson, guitar
Villa Massimo, Rome, ITALY
May 2010
Featured artist on New Music Box
Spotlight Session: In the Zone with Richard Carrick
video interview about The Flow Cycle Premiere
May 26, 2010, KOREA
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Taught Masterclass to Graduate Composers
May 15-28, 2010, KOREA
UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education, Seoul, Korea
Trained the Very Young Composers of Seoul
through the New York Philharmonic
May 16, 2010, 6 PM
Richard Carrick’s: Adagios for String Quintet
premiere of quintet version
Con Vivo, Jersey City, NJ
April 29, 2010, 8 PM
Richard Carrick’s: Towards Qualia quartet
ai ensemble, Isabel Castellvi
Manhattan School of Music, NYC
April 17, 2010, 7:30 PM
World Premiere of Richard Carrick’s: Adagios for String Quartet
JACK Quartet
Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad, California
April 2, 2010, 8:30 PM
Richard Carrick’s: The Flow Cycle: The First Complete Performance
Either/Or: Kuan Chung Lu and Andrea Schultz, violins, Dov Scheindlin viola,
Eric Bartlett and Alex Waterman cellos.
Roulette, SoHo, NYC
March 26 and 27, 2010 8 PM
Conducting and performing works by Klaus Lang, Karin Rehnqvist and others
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
March 25, 2010
Richard Carrick’s: Les Scènes Acoustiques
Magnus Andersson, guitar
Annan Musik, Stockholm, SWEDEN
March 23, 2010
Richard Carrick’s: Les Scènes Acoustiques
Magnus Andersson, guitar
Samtida Musik, Stockholm, SWEDEN
March 22, 2010 7:30 PM
Richard Carrick’s String Sextet arrangement for Concertante
of Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings
Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
March 21, 2010
Richard Carrick’s: Les Scènes Acoustiques
Magnus Andersson, guitar
Halmstad, SWEDEN
March 20, 2010
Richard Carrick’s: Les Scènes Acoustiques
Magnus Andersson, guitar
Hamburgsung, SWEDEN
March 20, 2010, 8 PM
Richard Carrick’s: Towards Qualia quartet
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
February 26, 2010 8 PM
Conducting Czernowin’s Dam sheon hachol
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
February 25, 2010 8:30 PM
Lecture by Chaya Czernowin with Either/Or
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
December 3 and 5, 2009 Stockholm, SWEDEN
Richard Carrick’s: Les Scènes Acoustiques
World premiere, Magnus Andersson, guitar
December 4, 2009, Stockholm, SWEDEN
Guest Lecturer at Royal College of Music
Lecture on The Flow Cycle
November 24, 2009 8 PM
Either/Or at the Stone, NYC
Performing works by Saariaho, Cardew, Kurtag, Klaus Lang, and others.
November 17, 2009 Belgrade, SERBIA
Richard Carrick’s Flow Cycle String Trio
18th International Review of Composers, Serbia
October 29, 2009
Richard Carrick’s Sculpture Idle Ceremony
Josh Modney and Matt Donelo
The Tank, NYC
2008-09 SEASON
July 19, 2009 International House, Tokyo JAPAN
Richard Carrick’s Legerete
Richard Carrick, piano
June, 27, 2009 - FZML Festival, Leipzig, GERMANY
European Images
European Premiere, Bahnhofskonzert
June 19, 2009, 8 PM - Either/Or at Issue Project Room
as pianist performing Feldman’s Why Patterns?
May 23, 2009 - Either/Or Spring Festival
Richard Carrick’s La Scène Miniature Quartet
premiere, Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
May 10, 2009 - Ebenkoben Ars Nova Festival, GERMANY
Richard Carrick’s la scène miniature
Carin Levine - piccolo and Rohan de Saram - cello
recorded on SWR 2 German Radio
May 1 - Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn
Richard Carrick’s Duo Flow
Chris Otto - violin, and Emily DuFour - Cello
April 7, 2009, 8 PM - Either/Or at Chelsea Museum
performing work by NYU Graduate Students
April 4, 4:30 PM - MATA Festival
Panel Discussion, Composer/Performers
Le Poisson Rouge
April 2, 2009 - Austrian Cultural Forum
Performing piano, electronics, and video works
by Paolo Aralla, with Either/Or
March 31, 2009, 8 PM - Manhattan School of Music
Richard Carrick’s Sculpture Idle Ceremony
New York Premiere, performed by Josh Modney and Matt Donello
March 26, 2009, 8 PM - Merkin Hall
“å cause de soleil” Flow Cycle String Trio, Part 1
world premiere
Richard also performing Salut für Caudwell by Helmut Lachenmann,
Sahaf by Chaya Czernowin, and a new work by Elizabeth Hoffman.
January 2009 New York University
Adjunct Professor
New York University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
November 14, 2008 8 PM
Richard Carrick’s Towards Qualia
Transit Ensemble, Brooklyn Conservatory
November 9, 2008 Wels, AUSTRIA
Richard Carrick’s Nezilat ha Balagan
Mary Oliver and Rozemarie Heggen Duo
Unlimited Festival at the Alter Schlachthof
October 26, 2008, 3 PM - Merkin Hall
Richard Carrick’s Duo Flow
New York Philharmonic Ensembles Concert
October 24, 2008, 8 PM - Either/Or at Issue Project Room
as pianist
Reich - Four Organs
Glass - Music in Similar Motion
Chatham - Two Gongs
July 4-10, 2008 Darmstadt GERMANY
Jury member, the Staubach Preis with the Arditti Quartet
Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
2007-2008 CONCERTS
Moroccan Flow (unfolding from unity)
Isabel Castellvi, cello
July 6, 2008
Heaven Gallery, Chicago
July 10, 2008, 8pm
Manhattan School of Music Concert
Gershwin Hotel Theater - 7 East 27th Street, NYC
July 17, 2008, 7pm
ai Duo (clarinet and cello)
Gershwin Hotel Theater - 7 East 27th Street, NYC
The Hamsah “Quartet”
for string quartet and offstage trumpet
world premiere
Hoff Barthelson Student Ensemble
Community Unitarian Church, 468 Rosedale Avenue, White Plains, NY
Sunday May 4, 2008 7pm, $12/$10
Find the Devil’s Lead
for soprano and ten players
world premiere
Wet Ink Ensemble
St. Peters Church, 346 West 20th St, Chelsea, NYC
Saturday May 3, 2008, 8pm, $10
Jesus Moonwalks the Miss’ssippi
music for theater
Patricia Ybarra, director
Brown University
April 10-22, 2008
Towards Qualia [sextet version] and more at
MATA Festival
Brooklyn Lyceum
April 4, 2008 8pm
Selected works
Either/Or at The Stone
March 26, 2008 10pm
Either/Or Lachenmann Festival
with Helmut Lachenmann
performing Salut für Caudwell
Goethe Institute, NYC
March 11 and 13, 2008
Moroccan Flow (unfolding from unity) for cello
World Premiere, Alex Waterman - cello
and
Richard performing
Georg Friedrich Haas - Ein Schattenspiel for piano and live electronics
Beat Furrer - Lied for violin and piano
Karlheinz Essl - more or less - realitme composition for 5 computer-controlled soloists
Peter Ablinger - Weiss/Weisslich 4 for piano and ensemble
Either/Or at Austrian Cultural Forum
February 20, 2008, NYC 7:30PM
free tickets, order in advance by phone: 212-319-5300 ext. 222
Pianos for piano and tape
and performing
Georg Friedrich Haas - Ein Schattenspiel for piano and live electronics
Lachenmann’s Salut fur Caudwell
(as pianist and guitarist)
with David Shively - guitar
Scarsdale, NY
January 6, 2008
Duo Flow for violin and cello
World premiere
also performing
Luigi Nono’s ...sofferte onde serene...
for piano and tape
Either/Or Fall Concert
November 9, 2007, Tenri, NYC
Nezilat ha Balagan
for improvising players
CD recording by Mary Oliver-vn and Rozemarie Heggen-db (Amsterdam)
October 11, 2007
Shadow Flow
World Premiere Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC,
Petra Ackermann, viola, Trio Eis
September 19, 2007
Graphic Music
Either/Or (as percussionist)
The Kitchen
September 14, 2007
Balagan
for Riot, world premiere July 13, 2007, Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC,
Michael Ibrahim-saxophone, Oren Fader-guitar, Eric Wubbles-accordion.
SELECTED PAST PERFORMANCES BEFORE 2007
Towards Qualia
World premiere April 6, 7 2007 Either/Or, Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
Jennifer Choi-vn, Alex Waterman-vc, David Shively-perc, Richard Carrick-pno
AWARD: The Gold Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival 2007 for film score to Nancy Kiang's Solidarity Short Film.
Portrait Concert:
European images
three pieces for video with electronic sounds and live cello ( premiere)
and
Natural Electronics
for tape (premiere)
and
∞ + 1
for solo piano (premiere)
and
L'idée sans l'idéal
piano trio (new version premiere)
January 26, 2007, Scarsdale, NY.
with Andrea Schultz, vn, and Michael Finckel, vc.
∞ + 1
World Premiere
and
"in flow"
Carrick performing with Chris Otto, also including Oligosono by Elliott Sharp and Lied by Beat Furrer
November 1, 2006 Encinitas, CA, Festival of our Time
Légèreté
performed by Luciane Cardassi, San Diego
October 31, 2006
"in flow"
for Violin August 17, 2006 Darmstadt, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. Performed by Marco Fusi (IT).
Solidarity
July 19, 2006 Screening at the Long Island International Film Festival.
"in flow"
world premiere April 7, 2006 Either/Or Festival. Andrea Schultz, vn.
Solidarity,
music for a short film by Nancy Kiang. released October 2005.
L'idée sans l'idéal,
September 18, 2005.
World Premiere by Cabrini Trio: Andrea Schultz-violin,
Michael Finckel-cello, Christopher Oldfather-piano.
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City.
Kyandu Muziki,
July 22 and August 5, 2005.
Nyumba Ya Sanaa (Cultural Center), Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA.
Performing marimba with traditional African music and dance troupe.
Music of Mtwara people from southern Tanzania.
Studied marimba with Chambuso Tanzanina.
Cosmicomics
May 10, 2005
viewing of DVD with talk at the New School, NYC
Either/Or
April 1, 2005
works by Ligeti, Feldman, Birtwistle, and Voigt
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
Cosmicomics
based on Italo Calvino's novel.
for 8 players, narrator, electronics, and multi-channel video.
Sequitur Ensemble , January 12, 2005, Merkin Hall, New York City.
collaboration with Peter Nigrini-video.
The Veins of Marble
ISCM World Music Days
Switzerland, November 8, 2004
Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain
Entre Nous
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Switzerland, 2004
Notebook Bedside-world premiere
Either/Or Premiere Concert
New York City– March 25, 2004
Jennifer Cobb-soprano, David Shively-percussion, Richard Carrick-piano
Sculpture Idle Ceremony
Ensemble On-Line, VIENNA
Porgy and Bess Theater
December 2003
IRCAM, PARIS - Stage d’Été, June 3-28, 2002
Snow, Silence, Sleep
with the Flinders String Quartet
and
Pianos
for solo piano with tape
Banff Centre for the Arts, CANADA March 8, 2002
Tight
for solo piano, Guy Livingston pianist
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February, 2002
Légèreté
for solo piano, R. Carrick, pianist
Banff Centre for the Arts, January 12, 2002
Légèreté
for solo piano, R. Carrick, pianist
Karnatic Lab, AMSTERDAM - December 4, 2001
1999 Konzerthaus, Vienna
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Lange Nacht fur Neue Klang