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.