Performances + Events
Sid Richardson
Education and Training
BA, Tufts University; PhD and MA, Duke University; MM, The Boston Conservatory..
Awards and Recognition
Hermitage Prize from the Aspen Music Festival and School, 2018
Charles Ives scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
Elliott Carter Memorial Composition Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center
In 2021, Richardson released his debut portrait album, Borne by a Wind, on New Focus Recordings. The record’s cornerstone features Red Wind, a genre-spanning collaboration with poet Nathaniel Mackey and a mixed chamber ensemble of New York-based musicians, and three other chamber works performed by pianist Conrad Tao, violinist Lilit Hartunian, and the Da Capo Chamber Players.
Sid has participated in artist residencies at Crosstown Arts, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and their satellite campus at Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France. As a music educator, he has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the composition faculty at New England Conservatory of Music and the music faculty at Wellesley College.
Former faculty at Wellesley College and MIT.
Curriculum Vitae
BA, Tufts University; PhD and MA, Duke University; MM, The Boston Conservatory..
- Hermitage Prize from the Aspen Music Festival and School, 2018
- Charles Ives scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Elliott Carter Memorial Composition Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center
Affiliated Departments and Programs
Composition
