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Richard Carrick

Chair
Affiliated Departments
Composition
rcarrick@berklee.edu
Telephone
617-747-6123
Personal Websites
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Career Highlights
  • Cofounder/director of Either/Or, an experimental chamber ensemble in New York City
  • Composed and conducted the musicians of the New York Philharmonic for the NYPHIL BIENNIAL 2014 Festival
  • Recordings include lanterne (New Focus Recordings) featuring Korean and Western instrumental soloists; The Flow Cycle for Strings (New World Records) featuring Either/Or; Cycles of Evolution (New World Records) featuring musicians from the New York Philharmonic; and Stone Guitars (New Focus Recordings) featuring solo, multilayered electric guitar recordings
  • Premieres by the JACK and Mivos quartets, Nieuw Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, New York New Music Ensemble, Hyperion Ensemble, Sequitur Ensemble, Musica Nova, Hotel Elefant, Marilyn Nonken, Taka Kigawa, Margaret Lancaster, Vasko Dukovski, Jennifer Choi, Tony Arnold, Magnus Andersson, Steven Schick, Rohan de Saram, and more
  • Festival premieres include ISCM World Music Days, Darmstadt, Enescu (Bucharest), Mid-American, Pacific Rim, Miller Theatre Portrait Concert, and New Chamber Ballet Portrait
  • Conducted over 200 premieres by leading avant-garde composers
  • Former faculty at Columbia and New York universities
  • Given master classes in Israel, South Korea, Japan, U.K., Sweden, Rwanda, France, and throughout the U.S.
  • Performs as a conductor, pianist, and (occasionally) electric guitarist
Awards
  • Guggenheim Fellow in music composition, 2015–2016
  • Gugak International Fellow, South Korea, 2015
  • Fromm Foundation commission, 2011
  • CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, 2015
Education
  • Ircam
    France
    Professional Diploma
    Electronic Production & Design
  • University of California-San Diego
    California
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    Composition
  • University of California-San Diego
    California
    Master of Arts (M.A.)
    Composition
  • Columbia University in the City of New York
    New York
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
    Music
In Their Own Words

"I thrive on being involved in music in many ways: as a composer, conductor, pianist, artistic director, and educator. What I love most about teaching is the personal development of each student. It is gratifying to be able to offer many different entry points into core and advanced subjects for students to best develop their capacity and innate talents."

"I hope students walk away from my classes with a strong sense of their own value and talent, a deeper understanding of the musical traditions and styles of previous composers and artists, and a vision for how they can best use their talents to develop their own musical voice in the contemporary world around them."

"Composition and creativity are totally intertwined. At Berklee, composition majors are offered a unique environment within which to develop their individual voice. The vast performing opportunities offered to Berklee students expand the act of composing to encompass also the realization and interpretation of the work. Berklee students have many opportunities to have their music performed, from notated to improvised settings, with all instrumentalists from diverse backgrounds; they not only develop a unique sound in this context, they learn also how to cultivate the right interpreters for their music."

"The Berklee experience provides a unique mix of passionate creativity and amazing performance opportunities amidst a diverse, international community."

Additional Related Links
Either/Or
Either/Or on YouTube
Either/Or on Vimeo