Magdalena Suchecka Richter
Education and Training
MM, Warsaw Academy of Music, Poland; MM, The Juilliard School. Studies with Roman Totenberg.
Awards and Recognition
Jean Stackhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching at NEC Preparatory School, 2009
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
Magdalena Suchecka Richter
Division: Expanded Education
Department: Strings
Instrument: Violin
Originally from Poland, Magdalena Richter has appeared as soloist with the Warsaw and Cracow Philharmonic and in the US with the Boston Pops, Cape Ann Symphony, the Nashua Philharmonic, Wellesley Symphony and Symphony by the Sea among others. “Violinist Magdalena Suchecka Richter is a virtuoso of her instrument, an artist of great, yet well controlled temperament,”- from the Copenhagen newspaper the Svenska Dag Bladet, in a review of her performance of Bacewicz Solo Sonata.
Richter is also a very devoted teacher and serves as a Chairman of New England Conservatory Preparatory School String Department and Rivers School Conservatory String Department. She is also a Director of the Rivers School Chamber Orchestra. Her students are very involved at NEC and BYSO youth orchestras as well as District, All State, All Eastern and National Orchestras, often serving as section leaders. Her students are also winners of concerto competitions in Boston area and many of them became professional musicians.
As a solo recitalist, Richter has presented concerts at the National Radio House, Paris, France; the International Cultural Center, Leipzig, Germany, at the Sibelius Academy of Music, Helsinki, Finland, and Warsaw Symphony Hall, Poland. Now settled in the Boston area, Richter has performed in various concert series at Jordan Hall, the Gardner Museum, Edward Pickman Concert Hall, and St. Paul’s Church. She also participated in hundreds of concerts and presentations for school children both in Poland and the US.
Richter has performed chamber music recitals with Arthur Balsam, Ronald Feldman, Roman Totenberg, Judi Stillman and Elise Jackendoff. As a member of New England String Quartett, Richter has presented concerts throughout New England.
Shee has numerous solo and chamber music performances, and recordings for radio and TV in Europe and U.S.; former faculty, Warsaw Academy of Music.
Curriculum Vitae
MM, Warsaw Academy of Music, Poland; MM, The Juilliard School. Studies with Roman Totenberg.
- Jean Stackhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching at NEC Preparatory School, 2009
- 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