Magdalena Richter
,
violist
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. In May 2009 she was awarded the
prestigious Jean Stackhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching at NEC
Preparatory School. 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 on 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-presentations for school children both in Poland
and 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.
Born to a family of professional musicians, Magdalena Richter began her
concert career playing with her parents. She studied first at the
Academy of Music in Warsaw, where she earned her diploma with highest
honors and joined a faculty. She continued her studies in US at Boston
University and Longy School with Roman Totenberg. Richter holds her
Master of Music degree from Juilliard School, where she was a
scholarship student of Dorothy Delay, earning the Extraordinary Student
of America Award.
Other awards have included a fellowship to
the Aspen Music School, a Special Award from the International
Competition for American Contemporary Music in New York City, first
prize awards from numerous National Competitions in Poland, a prize in
the International Wieniawski Competition, and the International Young
Violinists’ Competition in Paris.
M.M. with highest honors (Warsaw Academy
of Music, Poland); M.M. (The Juilliard School), chosen as Extraordinary
Student of America; prize winner, International Competition in Paris,
Wieniawski International Competition, American Contemporary Music
International Competition; numerous solo and chamber music performances,
and recordings for radio and TV in Europe and U.S.; former faculty,
Warsaw Academy of Music.
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