He is an American & Canadian composer, author & Principal French hornist for Regina Symphony Orchestra & Music in the Mountains in Grass Valley California.
Mr. Burdick’s is a very active composer. With music often based on the I Ching, some cycle through 64 microtonal steps within an octave of sound.
Find his recordings on: https://richardoburdick.bandcamp.com/
His books are: An interview with Alan Hovhaness and I Ching Music (the book.)
I Ching as a form of inspiration is very drawing. This revitalization led me to listen to your many Spotify recordings of your works for horn and horn ensemble, and actually sitting down and listening to them while noting the specific pattern of the I Ching that they are based on has quite possibly changed my life.
I write this email to you to thank you for all that you do as a composer and hornist; in the modern age of music there is an influx of works that lack real feeling and don’t illicit anything from the listener, and your works specifically More than 64 Quartets for Horns based on the I Ching, opus 178 are the farthest thing from those.
I feel genuine connection and understanding when I listen to them, so much . . .
CD100 - Bear Valley Fanfares, Op. 116
& Bear Wald Septet, Op. 325
Chamber Symphonies No. 14, Op. 314
Chamber Symphonies No. 15, Op. 328
Chamber Symphonies No. 16, Op. 329
Find it on BandCamp
Find them on https://richardoburdick.bandcamp.com/?external_follow=1
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT RICHARD BURDICK’S NATURAL HORN CD’S FIND THEM ON naturalhorn.com/
THIS is a concert mostly of my own compositions, BUT it is not a “solo concert” I will be joined by the great trombonist Shaun Poisson-Fast!
6 short duets for horn & trombone
3 horn solos
& 3 for horn, trombone and tape
My recital concert will happen this Sunday @ 2p.m. (June 1st) This is the first of this type of solo concert that I have done in many years.
https://theexchangelive.ca/event-calendar/post/richardoburdick
