Richard Burdick, first horn for Regina Symphony Orchestra since 2003. He is a native of Northern California.
He worked full-time for Sacramento Symphony in the 1990’s. He has been a member of the Music in the Mountains Summer festival orchestra in Grass Valley California since 1993 and principal since 2016. He has performed concerti by Burdick, Haydn, Mozart, Quantz, Strauss & Telemann.
Mr. Burdick’s love horn playing & is a prolific composer. His compositions are often based on scales suggested by the patterns of the I Ching. He works in many styles from neo-classical, microtonal, meditative, and post-avant-garde. Music with video is an important part of his prolific yield.
Richard is an active recording artist recording his own works & a variety of authentic-practice classical works (natural horn), & horn ensemble works.
He has also worked as an arranger, librarian, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California (19 years: 84-03). BEAUTY