composer
RICHARD CARRICK
COMPOSITIONS
“The charm of Mr. Carrick’s “Scène Miniature” (2009) was in the way the instruments — piano, violin, saxophone and musical saw — paired off in various combinations. The paired instruments began by playing abstract themes, but in the final section, based on a sharply rhythmic Algerian dance melody, abstraction was overtaken by exoticism and sheer infectiousness.”
Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
“Richard Carrick's Cosmicomics was an almost operatically ambitious multimedia piece with video, narration, and a scintillating score ... The concept was clever….each element had its own engaging narrative.”
Kyle Gann, The Village Voice
"whole stretches of this organic, restless and unruly score conveyed the sense of creation as a tumultuous process. "
Anthony Tommasini,The New York Times
“intriguing, enigmatic and eloquent.”
“His work is heavily influenced by the physical properties of sound, and the boundaries between pure texture and traditional pitched music, with North African melodic influences floating through.....à cause du soleil – Flow Trio ... represented a new level of maturity in his already impressive compositional development.”
Bruce Hodges, Music Web UK
PIANIST
“a demon at the piano”
Bruce Hodges, Music Web UK
EITHER/OR
“A new and first-rate new-music ensemble”
Bernard Holland, The New York Times
ARTICLES
Featured Composer: Spotlight Session: In the Zone with Richard Carrick
Featured Composer in the Swedish Journal Nutida Musik Journal, May 2008. “Young Americans” written by Mika Pelo
Cosmicomics and Richard Carrick's multi-media work is featured in the
Magazine of Chamber Music America, "The Multi-Media Challenge" by Randy Nordschow, 12/2005, vol.22, no.6, p.28
Working with Video: A Primer, by Richard Carrick
NewMusicBox.org July 19, 2005
