TS6 Richard Burdick Talks about choosing the horn key for his Handsome solos and his new works
00:00 Introduction 00:53 Greetings 00:28 02:33 Impressions for viola solo with wind quintet and percussion 03:07 What I’m writing right now. 03:17 Rising Beauty, Op. 323 04:00 Yin Yang Melody Cycle for 3 horns, piano and drums 04:47 Forming the Natural horn key for Handsome Horn solos
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 (Oscar now 9, and Henry 7), 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 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 CD’s of his own compositions, Bach and his classical natural horn playing available from I Ching Music. More information about Mr. Burdick and his CD’s can be found on the web at: www.i-ching-music.com., amazon.com, CdBaby.com, Naturalhorn.com, Favorites-CD.com and digital music stores around the world.
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