Richard Burdick

 

 

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 7, and Henry 5), 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 is also 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.  His works vary from quite tonal to improvisational and avant garde.  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 at the Conservatory of Music in Regina, Saskatchewan Canada and at the "Emergence", Regina Symphony Orchestra's new music festival, March 27th 2004.

 

Recordings

Howlers revised 2006

 

L.F. Dauprat : 20 duos for horns in différent keys op. 14

W.A. Mozart : Duos for horns in E flat KV 407

1. Allegro

2. Menuetto

3. Andante

12. Allegro

Burdick

 

Richard Burdick, horns

 

recorded in 2006

In 2002, Richard Burdick was recording the duos op. 14 for 2 horns in different keys by Dauprat and titled the CD with a very good sense of humor "Howlers".  Four years after, with more experience on natural horn he wanted to re-do it and did it, plus a few Mozart duos (in E flat !)

 

L. F. Dauprat: 6 trios and 6 quartets for horns in different keys op. 8

  Burdick

 

Richard Burdick, horns

 

recorded in 2005

Thanks to Richard Burdick, Dauprat is not only a composer we know as who has written some trios and quartets for some horns in different keys.  Richard Burdick sat in a studio with a natural horns and a few crooks for hours and recorded all the parts by himself, edited the tape, burned the CD's and is selling them through the internet (www.i-ching-music.com). He started recording the Dauprat sextets like this, and is planning to complete them at some point.

 

Howlers

 

L.F. Dauprat : 20 duos for horns in différent keys op. 14

Burdick

 

Richard Burdick, horns

 

recorded in 2002

 

Calender

21st and 22nd of April, 2007 - Regina (Saskatchewan), Canada

Regina Symphony Orchestra
Richard Burdick, natural horn

    - Ward : Games 
    - Dauprat : Concerto # 3 opus 18 for horn and orchestra
    - Telemann : Suite Alster for 4 horns and orchestra
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