STEVEN RICHMAN is the Grammy Award-Nominated Conductor and Music Director of Harmonie Ensemble/New York, and the Dvořák Festival Orchestra of New York. He is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Award, Lincoln Center Community Arts Award, WQXR Action for the Arts Award, and Classical Recording Foundation Award. He has conducted 8 CDs, including the Grammy-nominated Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat [The Soldier’s Tale] and Four Premieres on Koch International Classics, the recently released Symphonic Jazz: Grofé, Gershwin and Whiteman on Bridge Records (with legendary saxophonist Al Gallodoro as soloist), and Copland: Rarities and Masterpieces on Bridge Records, which received the Classical Internet Award: Best Orchestral Music CD of the Year (2004) by an international panel of critics. James Oestreich, chief music critic of The New York Times, chose his Dvořák Discoveries CD as one of the 5 Best Dvořák Recordings for the DvořákCentennial. He was the only American and only living conductor so chosen. Mr. Richman led benefit concerts to place a statue of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák in New York City’sStuyvesant Square Park, across the street from where Dvořáklived and composed the “New World” Symphony. Mr. Richman conducts the annual Dvořák Day Concerts which also include the music of American composers Gershwin, Copland, and Duke Ellington, who studied with students of Dvořák.
At New York’s Lincoln Center Mr. Richman conducted a Handel 300th Birthday Concert featuring the first fireworks show in the history of Lincoln Center, a Gershwin Memorial Concert which drew the largest audience (10,000) in the history of Lincoln Center, and a Leonard Bernstein 70th Birthday Concert, which received a special letter of commendation from New York City’s Mayor Edward Koch.
Maestro Richman has conducted at all of New York’s major halls, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and also toured the United States under Columbia Artists Management.From 1980-92 he served as Music Associate for United Nations Day Concerts international TV broadcasts, collaborating with conductors including Menuhin, Mehta, Maazel, and Fruhbeck de Burgos.
He contributed to the book Dvořák in America, has written several articles on Dvořák in New York, as well as authoring the recent Copland and Me, about his collaboration with composer Aaron Copland.
At New York’s Lincoln Center Mr. Richman conducted a Handel 300th Birthday Concert featuring the first fireworks show in the history of Lincoln Center, a Gershwin Memorial Concert which drew the largest audience (10,000) in the history of Lincoln Center, and a Leonard Bernstein 70th Birthday Concert, which received a special letter of commendation from New York City’s Mayor Edward Koch.
Maestro Richman has conducted at all of New York’s major halls, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and also toured the United States under Columbia Artists Management.From 1980-92 he served as Music Associate for United Nations Day Concerts international TV broadcasts, collaborating with conductors including Menuhin, Mehta, Maazel, and Fruhbeck de Burgos.
He contributed to the book Dvořák in America, has written several articles on Dvořák in New York, as well as authoring the recent Copland and Me, about his collaboration with composer Aaron Copland.