composer
composer
RICHARD CARRICK
Richard Carrick conducting Either/Or in Chaya Czernowin’s Winter Songs ii,April 15, 2011, Miller Theatre, nyc
Richard is the founder, pianist, and conductor of the critically acclaimed New York New Music Ensemble Either/Or.
As a pianist, conductor and guitarist, Richard has specialized in innovative contemporary music, with performances in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, at the Ijsbrekr-Amsterdam, Merkin Hall, The Kitchen, Miller Theater, and as soloist in Tokyo, Banff, Amsterdam, and throughout the US.
In recent concerts he has conducted the US and World Premiere of works by Jonny Greenwood, Chaya Czernowin, Karin Rehnqvist, Rebecca Saunders, and has performed US and World Premieres works on piano by George Lewis, Horatiu Radulescu, Georg Friedrich Haas, Helmut Lachenmann, Beat Furrer, Elliott Sharp, Hans Thomalla, and others. He has championed major works by Luigi Nono, Gerard Grisey, Giacinto Scelsi, Gyorgy Ligeti, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, Louis Andriessen, as well as numerous world premieres by emerging composers. He premieres chamber music regularly with Either/Or.
He has also performed on marimba with Kyandu Muziki, a Mwambe dance music troupe in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and learned acoustic guitar to give the New York premiere of Helmut Lachenmann’s Salut für Caudwell. He has recorded a solo CD of piano improvisations (Containment: Layered Piano Improvisations, 2001) and a solo CD of electric guitar compositions (Stone Guitars, 2011). He premieres his own works on piano and guitar, and most recently as conductor whenever possible.
SELECTED CONTEMPORARY REPERTOIRE
AS CONDUCTOR
Jonny Greenwood - smear (US premiere)
Miller Theatre, 2011
Chaya Czernowin - Winter Songs ii (US premiere)
Chaya Czernowin - dam scheon hachol
Miller Theater, Composer Portrait, 2011
Scelsi - Pranam II
The Kitchen, NYC
Gerard Grisey - Periodes
Sean Griffin - Buffalo ’70, large work for singers and ensemble,
MATA Festival 2008
SOLO PIANO
Horatiu Radulescu - Sonata for Cello and Piano
Hans Thomalla - Piano Counterpart (2008)
Luigi Nono - ...sofferte onde serene... (with tape, 1977)
Georg Friedrich Haas - Ein Schattenspiel (with live electronics, 2004)**
Richard Carrick - ∞+1* (2007)
Richard Carrick - Légéreté (2002)
Massimo Lauricella - Due Studi (1988)
Elliott Sharp - Oligosono (2004)
Howard Skempton – Piano Works
Alexander Stankovski – Cercare – Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi** (2004)
AS GUITARIST
Carrick - Stone Guitar CD, 2011
Helmut Lachenmann- Salut für Caudwell** for two speaking guitarists, 2007 and ongoing performances
AS PERCUSSIONIST
Kyandu Muski dance/music troupe in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(two month stay learning and performing African marimba) 2005
* - WORLD PREMIERE
** - NY Premiere
“a demon
at the piano”
- Bruce Hodges