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Magdalena Suchecka Richter

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Education and Training

’80 MM Warsaw Academy of Music; ’83 AD Longy School of Music; ’85 MM Juilliard School

Awards and Recognition

Jean Stackhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching at NEC Preparatory School

Aspen Music School fellowship

Special Award from the International Competition for American Contemporary Music

International Wieniawski Competition prize winner

International Young Violinists’ Competition prize winner

Extraordinary Student of America Award

National Competition in Lublin, Poland

Magdalena Suchecka Richter

Division: Expanded Education

Department: Strings

Instrument: Violin

Born into a family of professional musicians in Gdańsk, Poland, she began playing the violin at age four. She came to the US in 1982 and settled in Boston, MA. Magdalena started her violin study with her grandmother, Marta Suchecka, and continued with Jerzy Hazuka, Stefan Herman, Krzysztof Jakowicz in Poland, and Roman Totenberg and Dorothy Delay in the US. She performed with the Warsaw and Kraków Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Nashua Philharmonic, and the Wellesley Symphony, among others, and presented concerts at the National Radio House in Paris, France; at the Warsaw Symphony Hall; and in many other European cities.

Settled in Boston in 1983, Richter has performed in various concert series at Jordan Hall, the Gardner Museum, and Edward Pickman Concert Hall. She also participated in hundreds of concerts and presentations for schoolchildren in Poland and the USA.

She served as Chairman of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School String Department from 1995 to 2023 and from 2000 to 2019 at the Rivers School of Music in Weston, MA. She is currently a member of the Violin Faculty at both schools. She was also a youth orchestra conductor at the Rivers Day School from 2007 to 2018. Her students are involved in various Boston youth orchestras and in District, All-State, All-Eastern, and National Orchestras, often serving as section leaders. Many are winners of local and national competitions and go on to become professional musicians. Her former students are members of leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic.

Magdalena Suchecka Richter is also dedicated to training the next generation of teachers and has previously led the String Pedagogy Seminar at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston Conservatory, and Rivers School Conservatory.

Curriculum Vitae

’80 MM Warsaw Academy of Music; ’83 AD Longy School of Music; ’85 MM Juilliard School

  • Jean Stackhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching at NEC Preparatory School
  • Aspen Music School fellowship
  • Special Award from the International Competition for American Contemporary Music
  • International Wieniawski Competition prize winner
  • International Young Violinists’ Competition prize winner
  • Extraordinary Student of America Award
  • National Competition in Lublin, Poland