Sam L. Richards: Recent Episodes
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I have always been attracted to trees. My fascination with them has been with me at least since adolescence—walking beneath them, planting them, writing about them, and studying them. I have written numerous musical works about domestic trees, but this piece is my first foray into the foreign. The Middle East is rich with histories, … Continue reading In Roots and Groves, for piano quartet →
This past fall, I was invited to the Society for Music Theory’s conference to present as a member of a panel to the Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group. Other members of the panel included Mary Arlin, John Covach, Michael Callahan, and Anna Gawboy. Each of us were asked to explore the question “What is Music … Continue reading What is Music Theory Pedagogy? →
An Art Artistry, in Athens, Greece, has recently posted their recordings of my award-winning Blossoms for piano to YouTube. Watch below:
“End Light,” a hybrid video and sculptural work by Collin Bradford that I have scored, is premiering at ArtPrize 2016 and will be featured in the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI from now until Oct. 17th. End Light, premiering at ArtPrize in 2016 at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, is a … Continue reading “End Light” at ArtPrize →
I am honored to have recently been awarded a prize in An Art Artistry’s “The Contemporary Piano 2016 competition for my work 3 Blossoms, for solo piano. The prize comes with a performance, and audio/video recording by famed pianists Theoni Papadimitrakopoulou & Dimitris Anousis during their 2016 season in Athens, Greece. Recordings will be shared here … Continue reading An Art Artistry Prize →
Earlier this year I was awarded as a winner of Frame Dance Productions 2016 Composer Competition. Through the award, I have been granted the pleasure of working with the Executive and Artistic Director of Frame Dance Productions, Lydia Hance. The work will be premiered this Saturday, May 7th, at MATCH Houston, with my music being featured in … Continue reading Frame Dance – Houston →
Tonight, my piano quartet, In Roots and Groves will be premiered by the Salty Cricket Composers Collective in Salt Lake City. Also on the program with be work by Samuel Adler and Carla Scaletti. Tickets are available through the Salty Cricket Composers Collective website. Concert starts at 7:30pm @ the Art 270 Gallery – 270 S … Continue reading “In Roots and Groves” Premiere TONIGHT! →
My article, "From Quotation, Through Collage, to Parody: Postmodernism's Relationship with Its Past," is now available in the latest issue of Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 53, No. 1). Check it out on JSTOR or in print at your local library.
“The Delicates Converge” is an electro-acoustic work that premiered at the Ann Arbor Chapter of the SEAMUS Annual Concert in the McIntosh Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI, November 10, 2012. It is a movement from “Mono no aware” along with its counterpart “Sakura.”
On Oct. 22, 2015, Neil Thornock premiered my ". . .fleurs de son. . ." on the Brigham Young University carillon. Recording below: