ELIZABETH RICHTER has enjoyed a distinguished career as both a performer and teacher. Formerly principal harpist with the Kansas City Philharmonic and the Kansas City Lyric Opera, she has performed as concerto soloist with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra in a performance of her edition of Carlos Salzedo's previously unpublished concerto, The Enchanted Isle. Conductors with whom she has worked include Sir Colin Davis, Maurice Abravanel, Gerard Schwarz, Maxim Shostakovich,Joseph Silverstein, Christof Perick, Yoel Levi and Raymond Leppard. She has performed with world-renowned artists including Dimitri Sitkovetski, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Walter Trampler, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Pinchas Zukerman,with whom she played a duet encore following a perfomance with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Her critically acclaimed CD of solo harp music, Looking Glass River, was released on the Beneficence label in 2006, and includes the premiere CD recordings of the harp transcription of the Bach Chaconne and the Dello Joio Bagatelles. Montage: Four Centuries of Music for Flute and Harp,with flutist Sandra Lunte, was released on the Centaur label in 2007 and includes the premiere recording of Chimera, which the duo commisioned from flutist and composer Gary Schocker. Ms. Richter may also be heard on recordings with cellist Mihai Tetel and with Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Jackie Allen.
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An enthusiastic player of chamber music, she was a founding member of the Aeolian Trio, the resident flute, viola and harp trio at Ball State University. Ms. Richter has appeared in recital in the United States and Europe and has been heard on National Public Radio's Performance Today. She has performed at many regional and national harp conferences, and was a featured concerto soloist at the 2004 American Harp Society National Conference. She is a past winner of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission.
Ms. Richter began her musical studies at the age of six and received a diploma in piano from the Eastman School of Music Preparatory Department. She earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in harp performance from Boston University College of Fine Arts, where she was a student of legendary teacher Lucile Lawrence. She pursued further musical studies at the Tanglewood Music
Festival, the Music Academy of the West, and the Salzedo Harp School in Camden, Maine.
Professor of Harp at Ball State University since 1982, in 2001 she received the BSU College of Fine Arts Dean's Teaching Award, given "in recognition of her superior teaching and dedication to student development." Her students have been prize-winners in
numerous national, regional and local competitions and auditions, and have established successful careers as soloists,
orchestral harpists and teachers in the United States, Europe and South America. She has conducted master classes at Tanglewood and the Royal Academy of Music in London and at many American universities and festivals, and is a frequent judge at competitions, including the American Harp Society Young Professional Competition. She served for several years on the National Screening
Committee for Fulbright Awards in the area of string instruments. In the summer she performs at the Midwest Harp Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she also teaches the College and Career-Bound Seminar for advanced level students.
Festivals which she has organized at Ball State University include the 1985 Salzedo Centennial Harp Festival, the 1997 Lucile Lawrence 90th Birthday Tribute and the 2007 Lucile Lawrence Centennial Celebration. She has published many articles in the
American Harp Journal, the American Harp Society Teacher's Forum and The Harp Column. She formerly served as First Vice-President of the American Harp Society and as director of the Society's Concert Artist Program, and as a member of
the Board of Directors and Vice-President of the American Harp Society Foundation.
Ms. Richter began her musical studies at the age of six and received a diploma in piano from the Eastman School of Music Preparatory Department. She earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in harp performance from Boston University College of Fine Arts, where she was a student of legendary teacher Lucile Lawrence. She pursued further musical studies at the Tanglewood Music
Festival, the Music Academy of the West, and the Salzedo Harp School in Camden, Maine.
Professor of Harp at Ball State University since 1982, in 2001 she received the BSU College of Fine Arts Dean's Teaching Award, given "in recognition of her superior teaching and dedication to student development." Her students have been prize-winners in
numerous national, regional and local competitions and auditions, and have established successful careers as soloists,
orchestral harpists and teachers in the United States, Europe and South America. She has conducted master classes at Tanglewood and the Royal Academy of Music in London and at many American universities and festivals, and is a frequent judge at competitions, including the American Harp Society Young Professional Competition. She served for several years on the National Screening
Committee for Fulbright Awards in the area of string instruments. In the summer she performs at the Midwest Harp Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she also teaches the College and Career-Bound Seminar for advanced level students.
Festivals which she has organized at Ball State University include the 1985 Salzedo Centennial Harp Festival, the 1997 Lucile Lawrence 90th Birthday Tribute and the 2007 Lucile Lawrence Centennial Celebration. She has published many articles in the
American Harp Journal, the American Harp Society Teacher's Forum and The Harp Column. She formerly served as First Vice-President of the American Harp Society and as director of the Society's Concert Artist Program, and as a member of
the Board of Directors and Vice-President of the American Harp Society Foundation.