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RICHARD CARRICK
Richard Carrick is a composer, pianist and conductor who writes music for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestra, film, theatre, electronics and concert music with video. Described as “charming, with exoticism and sheer infectiousness” by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times, Carrick's music draws inspiration from his French, North African, and UK background, his studies in mathematics and philosophy, interest in psychology, and experience as performer of notated and improvised music. He has spent recent years developing his compositional approach in New York, where he co-founded Either/Or, a “new and first rate new music ensemble” (Bernard Holland, The New York Times) to champion music by the American Experimentalists, European Avant-guarde, and emerging composers.
Carrick's compositions have been performed throughout North America and Europe, including The New York Philharmonic Ensemble Series, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, ISCM World Music Days, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, Tokyo’s International House, New York’s Merkin Hall, Miller Theater, and the MATA Festival. He has received premieres by the Nieuw Ensemble, The Nouvel Ensemble Modern, JACK Quartet, the Ensemble-On-Line of Vienna, the Arditti Quartet, Brown University, Magnus Andersson, Rohan de Saram, and Dov Scheindlin.
As pianist and conductor, Carrick has performed a unique repertoire of contemporary solo and chamber pieces on the Green Umbrella Series (LA) and throughout the US and Europe. He learned the guitar to give the New York premiere of Helmut Lachenmann's Salut für Caudwell; performed on marimba with Kyandu Muziki in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and received the Gold Medal of Excellence at the Park City Film Festival 2007 for his film score Solidarity.
Carrick is currently Adjunct Faculty at New York University (Faculty of Arts and Sciences), a Visiting Artist in Residence at the New School for Social Research, and trains composers for the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers Program in New York City and abroad. He has lectured on his own music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and given the composition masterclass at Ehwa Woman’s University of Seoul, South Korea.
He studied Mathematics and Music with David Rakowski and Mario Davidovsky at Columbia University (BA), with Brian Ferneyhough, Aleck Karis (piano) and George Lewis at UC-San Diego (MA, PhD), at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague and at the Stage d’Ete of IRCAM. www.richardcarrick.com
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Richard Carrick is a composer, pianist and conductor who writes music for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestra, film, theatre, electronics and concert music with video. Described by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times as, “charming, with exoticism and sheer infectiousness” and Kyle Gann of The Village Voice as “clever… scintillating...engaging,” Carrick’s music draws inspiration from his French, North African, and UK roots, his studies in mathematics and philosophy, and his experience as performer of notated and improvised music. Richard has spent the past five years developing his musical ideas in New York, where he concurrently founded the Either/Or Music Ensemble to champion music rarely heard by the American Experimentalists, European avant-guard, and emerging composers.
His music has been performed at numerous international festivals, including the International Composer Festival in Serbia (2009), New York Philharmonic Ensembles Series (2008), MATA festival-New York (2008), Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (2006), ISCM World Music Days-Switzerland (2004), Either/Or Spring Festivals, Banff Centre for the Arts (2002), ISCM-Lange Nacht fur Neue Klang-Wien in Vienna’s Konzerthaus (1999), Royaumont Voix Nouvelles Festival (1997), Wellesley Composers Conference (1998), Haags Tumult Festival-Holland (1996), and the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau (1993).
His music has been performed in Viennas’ Konzerthaus, Los Angeles’ Japan-America Theatre, Japan’s International House of Tokyo, Leipzig’s Bahnhof, New York’s Merkin Hall, Miller Theatre, Austrian Cultural Forum, The Kitchen and more.
He has written new pieces for the Nieuw Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Arditti Quartet, Sequitur Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Wet Ink Ensemble, Either/Or Ensemble, Brown University, UC-San Diego, soloists Rohan de Saram, Carin Levine, Magnus Andersson, Ernest Rombout, Ernestine Stoop, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Alex Waterman, David Shively and Petra Ackermann. He has also been performed by the Auros Group for New Music, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain-Switzerland, Ensemble-Online Wien, the Flinders Quartet-Melbourne, Harvey Sollberger, Steven Schick, Dov Scheindlin, and others.
Richard Carrick’s large scale multi-media work Cosmicomics (based on stories by Italo Calvino, with multiple video by Peter Nigrini) was commissioned and premiered by the Sequitur Ensemble of New York City in Merkin Hall. Recent premieres include The Complete Flow Cycle for Strings with Either/Or (2010), Adagios for String Quartet performed by Jack Quartet (2010), and Les Scenes Acoustiques on tour with Magnus Andersson (2009/10).
Carrick is Founder, Artistic Co-Director and pianist for Either/Or, “a new and first-rate new-music ensemble” (Bernard Holland, The New York Times) that presents the yearly Either/Or Spring Festival, numerous concerts of newly penned works, and portrait festivals of Helmut Lachenmann (2008) and Chaya Czernowin (2010) in New York City.
As a pianist and conductor he has specialized in innovative contemporary music, with performances in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, at the Ijsbrekr-Amsterdam, the Kitchen-New York, and as soloist in Banff, Amsterdam, California and New York. 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. His score for Nancy Kiang’s film, Solidarity, received the Gold Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival 2007. Carrick also receives regular commissions (Concertante, New York Philharmonic Education, etc) for arranging chamber music versions of classical orchestral repertoire.
Carrick is currently Adjunct Faculty at New York University (Faculty of Arts and Sciences), a Visiting Artist in Residence at the New School for Social Research, Faculty at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School, where he is Director of Music Technology, and trains composers for the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers Program in New York City and abroad. He has lectured on his own music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and given the composition masterclass at Ehwa Woman’s University of Seoul, South Korea.
He studied Mathematics and Music (with David Rakowski and Mario Davidovsky) at Columbia University before receiving a scholarship to study with Brian Ferneyhough, Aleck Karis (piano) and George Lewis at UC-San Diego, where he received his PhD in 2001. He also studied at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague in 1995-96 with Diedrick Wagenaar and Richard Barrett and at the Stage d’Ete of Ircam in 2002.
For more information, please visit www.richardcarrick.com
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Richard Carrick (Either/Or Co-Director) is a composer, pianist and conductor who writes music for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestra, film, theatre, electronics and concert music with video. Described as “charming, with exoticism and sheer infectiousness” by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times, Richard’s music has been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan by the New York Philharmonic Ensemble Series, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, ISCM World Music Days, MATA Festival, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Darmstadt Summer Festival, and other festivals. Carrick has received commissions by the Nieuw Ensemble, The Nouvel Ensemble Modern, JACK Quartet, the Ensemble-On-Line of Vienna, Brown University, soloists Magnus Andersson, Carin Levine, Rohan de Saram, and others.
As pianist and conductor he has performed a unique repertoire of solo works and unusual chamber pieces on the Green Umbrella Series in Los Angeles, at The Kitchen, the Banff Centre, Canada and regular appearances in New York. He co-founded Either/Or in 2004 and is currently Adjunct Faculty at New York University. www.richardcarrick.com
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