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Richard vonFoerster

Richard  von Foerster

  • Newman Center for the Performing Arts
  • 303-871-6981
  • rvonfoer@du.edu

Biography:

Richard von Foerster, cellist, is an active performer in the front range region. He has a wide range of musical interests, and currently performs as a member of the Cheyenne (WY) Symphony, the Central City Opera Orchestra, the Confluence String Quartet, and The Playground, Lamont's Artist - In - Residence new music group. He also performs recitals regularly with his pianist collaborator, Alix Corboy. Past affiliations have included the Colorado Ballet Orchestra, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Baltimore Opera Orchestra, the Contemporary Music Forum (Washington DC), the Toledo (OH) Symphony, and the tango band Extasis Orquesta Atipica. He has also appeared with the Colorado Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and numerous other orchestras and chamber music series. He arranges popular and classical music for string quartet, and frequently collaborates with local composers.

Richard's principal teachers have been Richard Slavich, at the Lamont School of Music, and Grace Konopka, of Royal Oak, Michigan. While a graduate student in cello performance and music theory at Lamont, he was the recipient of the Solo Honors Competition Award, the Chamber Music Competition Award, the Outstanding Student in Composition Award, the Outstanding Graduate Student in Academic Achievement Award, the Frank Toth Memorial Award, and three Recital of Distinction awards. He is now on the music theory faculty at Lamont and he maintains a small private teaching studio. He is also currently pursuing doctoral studies in Musicology at the University of Colorado, specializing in the music of the twentieth century.