Composition

Richard Carrick

Chair

Affiliated Departments

Composition

rcarrick@berklee.edu

617-747-6123

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Courses Taught (3)

Composition Internship

CM-495

Directed Study in Composition 2

CM-497

Contemporary Orchestra

ENCL-400

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

A.B., Columbia University
M.A., University of California
Ph.D., University of California
Stage d'ete at IRCAM (Paris)
Koninklijk Conservatorium (The Hague)

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."