Concerto
performances have taken Richard throughout Europe, New Zealand, and the Russian
Federation. He has collaborated with conductors such as Okko Kamu, Marko Letonja,
Douglas Bostock, David Parry, En Shao, Shuntaro Sato, and Yehudi Menuhin, and
been soloist with numerous orchestras including the London Philharmonic Youth
Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Auckland Philharmonia,
and the Ural Philharmonic.
Richard
has a passion for duo and chamber music and works with the pianists Christoph
Berner and Julius Drake. As chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Endellion
Quartet, Olivier Charlier, Benjamin Schmid, Ilya Gringolts, Pekka Kuusisto, Jack
Liebeck, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Ida Levin, Guy Ben-Ziony, James Boyd, Chen Halevi,
Julian Bliss, Finghin Collins, Gottlieb Wallisch, and Ashley Wass, among others.
At Chamber Music Connects the World in 2006, Richard gave concerts in Frankfurt
and Kronberg with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, and Eduard Brunner.
Richard
regularly plays on BBC, having made his BBC Radio 3 debut at the age of thirteen
with a live recording of the Elgar Concerto. He has also given performances for
Radio France, MDR, and Radio New Zealand. Richard’s debut disc for EMI Classics,
recorded with pianist Christoph Berner, was released to wide critical acclaim
in 2007.
He
has won numerous awards including the prestigious 2004 Pierre Fournier Award and,
in the same year, became the first British 'cellist ever to be awarded the title
"Bachpreisträger" at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, Leipzig.
In 2005, Richard received a special ”mention” from the jury at the Rostropovich
Competition, Paris.
Performances
in the coming seasons will include Lalo, Barber, and Haydn Concerti and recitals
and chamber music with Gottlieb Wallisch, Julia Fedoseeva, Christoph Berner, Ilya
Gringolts, Chloe Hanslip, and Alexander Sitkovetsky at venues and festivals such
as the Budapest Spring Festival, Vienna's Musikverein, and London's Wigmore Hall.
In
2009, Richard can be seen and heard in Phil Grabsky's new documentary In Search
of Beethoven which will receive its theatrical premiere at the Barbican Theatre,
London and broadcast premiere on Sky Arts.
Richard
plays a 'cello by Francesco Rugeri, dated 1692.
