Catching Up with Richard Carrick

by Ted Gordon on July 27, 2021, 10:07 a.m.

PSNY recently caught up with composer Richard Carrick to discuss how he's been adapting to the changing landscape of composition, collaboration, and performance during the ongoing pandemic. Carrick has seen several ongoing projects continue, despite the challenges, to fruition—including his evening-length work for music and dance Sea, a collaboration with the choreographer Miro Magliore, which includes the premiere of Carrick's composotion The Mill along with his Piano Preludes and "in flow". Sea premiered physically on May 28th, 2021, performed by the New Chamber Ballet, and was also premiered as a dance film which can be viewed below: 

We also discussed Carrick's ongoing "Graphic Series" of scores, which Carrick conceptualizes as "lead sheets" for virtuosic improvisers. Constructed as large, physical scores with open instrumentation, these works were first workshopped with Carrick's Neither/Nor Ensemble at the Berklee School of Music in 2018, and since have been written for and performed by ensembles such as the Mivos Quartet, String Noise, Either/Or, and many others. 

Richard Carrick · Graphic Series