About
Called "wholesome-looking" by the New York Times, violist John Pickford Richards has gained a reputation for performing new and unusual music around the globe. His recording of Roger Reynolds' imagE/viola can be heard on NEUMA Records. He was a founding member of the ensemble Alarm Will Sound and now serves both as JACK's violist and Executive Director.
John has appeared with artists including Björk and Grizzly Bear and has performed as soloist with the Pasadena Symphony, Armenian Philharmonic, Wordless Music Orchestra, OSSIA, and with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra playing the solo part to Luciano Berio's Chemins II under the direction of Pierre Boulez. He holds degrees from the Interlochen Arts Academy and Eastman School of Music where his primary teachers were David Holland and John Graham.