As a pianist and conductor Richard 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. He is the founder and pianist of Either/Or.

“a demon at the piano” - Bruce Hodges

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SELECTED CONTEMPORARY REPERTOIRE

SOLO PIANO

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)

CHAMBER MUSIC

Beat Furrer - Lied (1993) for violin and piano
Nick Didkovsky - If Reptile Organ's Thrive* (2007) for violin and piano

Daniel Felsenfeld - "First Scenes from Red Room"* for violin and piano
Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry

György Ligeti - Monument-Selbstportrait-Bewegung
(Three Pieces for two Pianos)
Morton Feldman - Why Patterns?
John Cage – Musicircus on Aria for solo soprano with Cheap Imitations and Imaginary Landscapes

Louis Andriessen - Hoketus

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

John Cage - seven, thirteen

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Refrain

Franco Donatoni – Ave

Georges Antheil - Ballet Méchanique

AS CONDUCTOR

Sean Griffin - Buffalo ’70, large work for singers and ensemble,

MATA Festival 2008

Daniel Felsenfeld - The Last of Manhattan*, an opera work in progress -

The Kitchen NYC 2004

Igor Stravinsky – L’histoire du Soldat 1997