Concerto
tours and recital performances have taken him abroad to 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, Jack Liebeck, Pekka Kuusisto, Ida Levin, Guy Ben-Ziony, James Boyd, Chen
Halevi, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Razvan Popovici, Gabrielle Lester, and Catherine
Leonard, 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 January 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 November 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, recitals
and chamber music with Christoph
Berner, Gottlieb Wallisch, Julia Fedoseeva,
Ilya Gringolts, Jack Liebeck, and Alexander Sitkovetsky at venues and festivals
such as the Budapest Spring Festival, Vienna's Musikverein, and London's Wigmore
Hall.
Richard
plays a 'cello by Francesco Rugeri, dated 1682.
