Stephanie Richard

 

An emerging bright talent to the world of new and improvised music, Canadian trumpeter and composer Stephanie Richards is rapidly establishing a place for herself as a fresh voice. From marching the plazas of Lincoln Center with Bang On A Can’s Asphalt Orchestra (Voted “Best in Classical 2009” by the Philadelphia Inquirer), to international broadcasts with hip-hop artist and Grammy winner Kanye West, to a recent solo trumpet debut at Carnegie Hall, Stephanie is pushing the sound envelope of the creative musician’s appetite. She is winner of the International Trumpet Guild Young Artist Award, has earned first prize in both the National Canadian Music Competition and the National Kiwanis Festival, is a McGill University Fellowship recipient, and was awarded the prestigious Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music.

A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Eastman School of Music where she earned a BM, she was drawn to Montreal, QC and earned a MM at McGill University in classical performance. Stephanie continued to Los Angeles, where she turned her focus to new music and jazz performance and composition, finishing an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Her success in LA included premieres of many new works, performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall, REDCAT, and residencies at Stanford University and the University of San Diego with new music ensemble InAuthentica.

She is continuing faculty at the Brooklyn Music School, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Academy of Creative Education in Hollywood, CA and the Calgary Regional Summer Music Institute in Calgary, Canada.

Stephanie has performed internationally on television (MTV 2007 Video Music Awards, ABC, ATV) and throughout the US and Canada, Mexico, France, Sweden, and the UK, and is a featured upcoming artist in “Das Trompeter-Taschenbuch”, a compilation of trumpet players around the world published by Schott-publishing house. Her newest album came out in 2009 with the 5-piece creative collaborative Dirty Squid: When A Duck Loves A Jellyfish.