Bradford Richards

violin

A native of Dallas, Texas, and immigrant from New York City to New Mexico in 2002, Brad studied violin at the Eastman School of Music. Having received tutelage from several notable violin pedagogues, including Willa Dean Howells, Eliot Chapo, Charles Castleman, and Pamela Frank, Brad has performed violin concertos with such orchestras as the Dallas Symphony (Mendelssohn), the Dallas Civic Symphony (Tchaikovsky), the Richardson (TX) Symphony (Wieniawski), the Sewanee Festival Orchestra (Stravinsky), the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble (Brahms, Mozart), the Greenwich Village Orchestra (Vivaldi), and other regional, community, and festival orchestras. In the 1990s, Brad served as concertmaster of the Greenwich Village Orchestra, and performed and recorded as a member of the Boston Philharmonic while working as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. In addition to his musical activities, Brad also currently enjoys his full-time job as a clinical psychologist and his part-time job as a race-driving instructor at Circuit of the Americas in Austin. Brad often performs on a very fine violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, 1870, modeled on a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, 1743, “Il Cannone.”