Photo: Chad Evans Wyatt
Wendy Richman, viola
Hailed by The New York Times and The Washington Post for her "absorbing," "fresh and idiomatic" performances with "a brawny vitality," founding ICE violist Wendy Richman has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across the U.S. and Europe. She has performed at venues from American Repertory Theatre to Miller Theatre, MassMoCA to the Phillips Collection, and Symphony Space to the Gewandhaus. Ms. Richman has appeared onWCRB-Boston's Tuesdays at Noon series, and she has also been heard on WGBH-Boston, WFMT-Chicago, WQXR-New York, and WETA-Washington, D.C. She has received particular praise for her interpretations of new music and has collaborated closely with a wide range of composers, including John Luther Adams, George Crumb, Brian Ferneyhough, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lee Hyla, David Lang, Alvin Lucier, Jeffrey Mumford, Matthias Pintscher, Bernard Rands, Roberto Sierra, and Augusta Read Thomas. In 2002, she and percussionist Tim Feeney gave the fully-staged American premiere of Luciano Berio's Naturale on ICE's all-Berio concert at Theater Building Chicago. More recently, she gave the world premiere of Ken Ueno's concerto Talus, as well as the American premieres of Kaija Saariaho's Vent Nocturne and Roberto Sierra's Viola Concerto.
Ms. Richman can be heard
on Albany Records, AURec, Between
the Lines, Bloodshot
Records, Mode Records,
and NAXOS. Ms. Richman has appeared at such summer festivals as Aspen, Bravo!, ClefWorks, Norfolk, Killington, San Juan, and Yellow
Barn. In the summers
of 2005 and 2006 she worked with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble
Intercontemporain at the Lucerne
Festival Academy. A graduate of the Oberlin
Conservatory,
where she studied viola with Jeffrey Irvine and Peter Slowik and voice with
Marlene Rosen, Ms. Richman received her master's degree from the New
England Conservatory of Music, under the guidance of Kim Kashkashian and Carol Rodland.
She has been recognized in the Primrose, American String Teachers Association,
Chicago Viola Society, Civic Music of Milwaukee and Ruggeri competitions.
In 2007, Ms. Richman relocated from Boston to Ithaca, NY. She maintains a
large viola studio at Cornell University and performs regularly in the area,
in addition to serving as a member of the Syracuse
Symphony Orchestra.
