Richard Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra
and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina Saskatchewan.
His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two
boys, marked the start of the fourth
major period in his musical Career.
In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony,
a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played
lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts,
a chamber music series in Berkeley California.
Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento
Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996.
He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North
State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.
He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s
of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and mulit-track performances of many of his favorites pieces.
He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn(1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brennan Model Finke double horn and he sometimes plays his C. F. Schimdt double horn made in 1934, which was played by James Tankersley priciple hornist of the Houston Symphony during the 1950's-1960's.
Richard no longer plays his Durk double after recording many CD's with it.
Richard O. Burdick's composing bio:
Richard
Burdick is a prolific composer of chamber and orchestral music. He
has a large volume of works for chamber music settings and concert halls, many
of which feature prominent French horn parts.
He frequently uses the I Ching as a structural foundation to his music.
His works vary from quite tonal to improvisational and avant-garde. They also range from minimal to quite random. He has written minimal styles both in the highly sustained and highly repetitive types. His works are very creative, but often have forms and structures that Bach used. He has works that fall into avant-garde, expressionist, minimalistic, modernist, neo-classical, and new-age-meditation styles. His use of harmonies is generally freer and is freeing to listen to. He is developing a New-age-meditation style of music based on the vibratory spectrum of sound.
For over 30 years, composer Richard Burdick has been using I Ching inspired
scales as a foundation for his compositions. The I Ching is sort of a fortune
telling system of the ancient Chinese. Being a binary system, it suggests scale
intervals of either half steps or whole steps. It is ideal for scales structures and patterns in music.
Like the scales of Northern India, the scales are divided into two tetra chord
like sets of three intervals. Mr. Burdick mostly uses the perfect fifth to separate
the two sets of three intervals. He also has a complete system of fixed tones
for each scale that organize the whole system into 64 unique vibratory signatures.
Richard has worked professionally as a
transcriber and/or arranger for the Sacramento Symphony, Concord
Pavilion Pops Orchestra and others. He has been a recipient
of Meet The Composer funding, Concert sponsorship funding from
the city of Davis, California, and was the winner of the 1983
Kensington Symphony Composition Contest with his "Six
Medieval Fragments for Orchestra, opus 14."
Mr. Burdick began composing in 1975 and has had premieres of most of his compositions.
The most recent performances have been
by the Electrum Brass Trio, at the Internatioanl Horn Symposium, at the Conservatory of Music in Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
and at the "Emergence", Regina Symphony Orchestra's
new music festival.
Please visit his list of compositions
by clicking on "Compositions of
Richard Burdick listed in OPUS order" or "Compositions listed by INSTRUMENT
group" on the menu on the left.
Richard Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra
and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina Saskatchewan.
His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two
young boys, marked the start of the fourth
major period in his musical Career.
In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony,
a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played
lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts,
a chamber music series in Berkeley California.
Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento
Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996.
He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North
State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.
He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s
of his own compositions, Bach and his classical natural horn
playing.
Richard Burdick's short biography #3
Richard Burdick: first horn Regina Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Players in Regina Saskatchewan Canada since 2003.
Former member of Lamplighters Orchestra, Oakland Municipal Band, Fresno & Sacramento Philharmonics, Napa, North Valley, Sacramento, & Vallejo Symphonies.
He managed of Circle Concerts & Trinity Chamber Concerts in Berkeley California.
He’s a prolific composer & has many CD’s of his own works, Bach, natural horn playing & multi-track performances of many favorites.
Richard Burdick's "wiki" style biography
Richard O. Burdick (B. April 27, 1961) a Canadian / American composer and French hornist.
1) Life
Richard Oscar Burdick was born in Berkeley California in 1961. His father Rev. Oscar Burdick worked as a librarian for Pacific School of Religion and still plays organ for Arlington Community Church, the Seventh Day Baptist Church and Pacific School of Religion.
Richard Grew up in El Cerrito California, attending El Cerrito High School from 1975 to 1978. He was then a composition major at California State University @ Hayward from 1978-1981, where he studied with Robert Basart and Glen Glasow.
From 1981 to 1984 He presented over 20 concerts creating the “Circle Concerts” concert series. A number of his early compositions premiered on that series including Richard’s First Chamber Symphony. He also presented a few other groups such as a harpsichord recital by Jean Nandi (the daughter of Alan Hovhaness), a Celtic music ensemble and The Kings Trumpets and Shawms. A free publication: “Circle Magazine” with music writings and art, was given out at those concerts.
Mr. Burdick Managed Trinity Chamber Concerts a chamber music series in Berkeley, from 1984-2003 producing over 400 concerts during his tenure. At least 30 of his compositions premiered on the Trinity Chamber Concert series.
He worked full-time as fourth Horn of Sacramento Symphony from 1990-1996 for whom he wrote a few arrangements.
In 1996 & 7 he again established the non-profit corporation “Circle Concerts” where he helped to present almost 70 concerts in communities around Northern California. Under this series he performed solo concerts in Chico, Davis, Napa, Sacramento, and more.
He has been principle horn of Regina Symphony in Regina, Saskatchewan since 2003.
Richard Burdick wrote a number of compositions in the 1970's in an experimental graphic form greatly influenced by the Dutch composer Ton Brynel. Starting in the early 1980's Richard has been working on compositions mostly based on the 64 scales inspired by the the I Ching which he has developed. Like the scales of Northern India, the trigrams (each of three lines suggesting half and wholes steps) are separated by a perfect fifth. His first version of these scales did not have the separation of the fifth. The third (and current) version of his scales keeps the fifth separation, but is overlaid upon the harmonic series, so each scale has its own key based on the harmonics from 64 to 128. These current scales could be categorized as “microtonal” but in reality they are equal-non-tempered scales.
2) Noted performances
As a horn soloist Richard has performed concerti with:
Berkeley Youth Orchestra, Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, Kensington Symphony , Oakland Philharmonic, Oakland Municipal Band, American River College Band, Bay Area Concerto Collective. Orchestra De Caccia in San Francisco, Regina Symphony Orchestra & the Cosbey Friends Orchestra.
Recitals for:
Cal State University in Hayward, Circle Concerts, City of Berkeley California, City of Davis California, Coffee Mill in Oakland, Conservatory of Music Regina, Covell Gardens In Davis, Davis Arts Center, First Christian Church in Oakland, First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, Martinez Music Forum, Ohlone College in Hayward, Old First Concert San Francisco , Palo Alto Performances , Pence Gallery in Davis, Rossmore California, Quincy California, San Francisco State University, Shared Visions, St. Mary’s Cathedral San Francisco. Trinity Chamber Concerts , Unitarian Church of Davis, University of Regina Faculty Concert(s), Westlake Christian Terrace in Oakland and more.
Premiered (in Concert or premiere recording) horn solo or chamber music by:
"Elaine L. Bearer", Aaron Blumenfeld, L. F. Dauprat, Ken Durling, Victor Herbert, Jon Ward, John Webber, and others
Richard Burdick's Resume
Resúme
Mr.
Burdick is a U. S. Citizen with permanent resident status in
Canada
RICHARD BURDICK
rb@horn.pro HORN
3245 Robinson Street
Regina, S4S 1V8
Saskatchewan, Canada
(306) 949-9412
Current Period (2003-):
Regina Symphony Orchestra, Regina Chamber players 1st Horn (fulltime
work) 2003 – present
Summer work in California:
• Music In The Mountains: 1st & 3rd horn, 1993 - present
• Strauss Festival (summer festival): 1st horn 1991- present
1st period:
• Napa Symphony: 1st horn 1988-90, 4th Horn c. 1985-88
• Lamplighters orchestra in San Francisco: 2nd horn 1987-1990
Before moving to Canada Richard Had performed as first horn
with:
The California Ballet, Classical Philharmonic, Chico
Symphony, Concerto Orchestra in San Francisco, Jarvis
Conservatory Opera in Napa, Modesto Symphony, North Valley
Symphony Orchestra, Rhonert Park Chamber Orchestra, Sacramento
Philharmonic, San Juaquin Ballet Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony,
Tahoe Festival, U. C. Davis Opera – Emperor Norton premier,
Vallejo Symphony, & West Bay Opera
Section horn with:
California Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, Marin Symphony, Monterey
Symphony, Oakland East Bay Symphony, San Francisco Ballet
(2nd, 3rd & 4th!), San Jose Symphony, Santa Rosa
Symphony, Utah Symphony & more
Recordings (CD's)
Mr. Burdick has many CD’s of his own compositions and his
natural horn playing
Please see http://www.i-ching-music.com
126) His first ever classical horn & piano recital in Canada with Dora Burdick, piano
Music of Planel, Beethoven, Bach, Bruch, Handel, Sinigaglia and Kofron.
(performed six times May 25-29) 125) RSO Chamber Players' Boisterous Baroque: Quantz horn concerto on the Baroque horn
and Bach's BWV 88 overture Bass solo on horn 124) Conservatory of Music recital with Amon's quintet, opus 110 123) Per sonator, baroque horn music of Bodinus & others 122) Horn & Harp for College 121) Swing into Spring 3/ 14 & 15 / 2009 Dauprat Qunitete opus 6 #2 120) RSO Chamber players Heavenly harp concert Naderman Nocture for horn & Harp 2/21 & 22, 2009 119) The Cosbeys and Friends Sunday, January 4, 7:30 pm 2009
Westminster United Church Heinrich Domnich: Horn concerto No. 1 118) July 24th 2008 in
Rossmore, California with Dora Burdick, piano 117) August 2nd 2007 in
Rossmore, California with Dora Burdick, piano 116) Dauprat's 3rd Horn concerto with the Nexen
Regina Symphony Chamber Players April 21st & 22nd, 2007 see
program 115) Nov. 5th 2006 Mozart 2nd Horn concerto with Regina Symphony Orchestra performed Mozart 2nd Horn concerto at
35 school concerts with RSO (Nat. Hn.) 114) 11/14/1004 Univ. of Regina Faculty Concert Schubert "Auf
Dem Strom", Dauprat Sonata, op. 7 113) 10-21-04 Solo recital in Darke Hall, Conservatory of Music
Regina, SK Canada & over one-hundred more going back to 1977
1) 1/'77 Telemann Concerto In D with the Berkeley
Youth Orchestra
