December 1 - 3, 2016
Cimbalom and hammered dulcimer soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Lord of the Rings.
www.tso.ca
November and December, 2016
Playing drums and percussion in the musical Beauty and the Beast.
www.theatreaquarius.org
October 26, 27
Cimbalom solosit with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Hary Janos Suite.
www.tso.ca
August 11, 2016
Stratford Summer Music Festival
Daniel Taylor's Theatre of Early Music and Tafelmusik
St. James Church
www.theatreofearlymusic.com
July, 2016
Performing at the Lincoln Center, New York City.
Playing an on-stage role in the National Ballet of Canada's The Winter's Tale
www.lincolncenter.org
May, 2016
Richard is pleased to announce that he has joined the Latin Percussion (LP), Protection Racket, and Gibralter families.
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January 2016
Richard will be playing hammered dulcimer, on stage, at
The Kennedy Center in Washington DC for the
National Ballet of Canada's The Winter's Tale
www.kennedy-center.org
October and November, 2015
Playing hammered dulcimer in an on-stage role in the
National Ballet of Canada’s North American Premiere of
The Winter’s Tale
www.national.ballet.ca
October 2015
Playing drums with Legends On Tour. He will be backing tribute artists for Patsy Cline,
Buddy Holly, The Tonettes, and Elvis Presley.
www.paquetteproductions.com
September 18, 2015
Finished the last track for Mike Herriot’s forthcoming CD, Isn’t Life Grand. Recorded all the drums, vibes, and congas for the CD.
www.mikeherriott.com
September 2015
Richard will be performing with Nouvel Ensemble Moderne in Montreal.
www.lenem.ca
May 22 and 23
Richard is playing percussion with Diana Krall at Massey Hall
www.dianakrall.com
March, 2105
Playing percussion in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
with the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra
www.national.ballet.ca
February 20 to 22, 2015
Playing cimbalom and percussion in
Gladiator Live at Place des Arts in Montreal
www.placedesarts.com
December 6 and 7, 2014
Richard is playing drum set and percussion with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Christmas Pops show
www.tso.ca
December 5, 2014
Playing cimbalom and percussion in Gladiator Live at the
Sony Centre in Toronto.
www.sonycentre.ca
October 20, 2014
Playing drums and vibes with the OTR Big Band
at The Rex Hotel
www.therex.ca
Jul. 17, 2014
Playing drums with the Larry Bond Jazz Quartet
Musideum, Toronto.
www.musideum.com
Jul. 14, 2014
Playing drums and percussion with the Mike Herriott Big Band
Rex Hotel, Toronto.
www.therex.ca
Jul.-Aug., 2014
Playing percussion in the Randolph School’s production of
Into The Woods.
Bathurst St. Theatre
May 2-4, 2014
Playing drums in West Side Story Symphonic Dances
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra
Edwin Outwater, conductor
Apr. 13, 2014
Playing drums for jazz legend, Wycliffe Gordon
Jane Mallet Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre, Toronto
Apr. 3-4, 2014
Playing cimbalom in Hary Janos Suite
University of Western Ontario Orchestra
Alain Trudel, conductor
Jun., 2013
Richard will be perfoming in the Orchestra for the National Ballet of Canada's production of Carmen.
Four Seasons Centre for the Arts, Toronto
May 2013
Richard will be perfoming in Bugs Bunny at the Symphony at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
Apr. 2013
Richard will be recording Cimbalom and Santur tracks for the Creative Assembly / Sega game "Total War: Rome II". Composer, Ian Livingstone.
www.ianlivingstone.net
Apr. 2013
Richard will be playing drums and percussion on Mike Herriott's forthcoming CD.
www.mikeherriott.com
Nov., 2012
Richard will be perfoming in the Orchestra for the National Ballet of Canada's production of Alice in Wonderland.
Four Seasons Centre for the Arts, Toronto
Sept. to Nov., 2012
Richard is in the Orchestra for the CBC TV production of Over the Rainbow.
CBC, Toronto
Sept., 2012
Performing in the Orchestra for Broadway Across Canada's production of Wicked.
Center-In-The-Square, Kitchener.
Jul., 2012
Performing with the Naional Arts Centre Orchestra production of Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring.
National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
Jul., 2012
Performing in the Orchestra for Broadway Across Canada's production of Wicked.
National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
May,Jun., 2012
Perfoming in the Orchestra for Dancap Productions of West Side Story.
Toronto Center for the Arts, Toronto.
Aug. 1 to 6, 2011
Performing with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and Opera Quebec
www.osq.org
May 28 to June 26, 2011
National Ballet of Canada new production of "Alice in Wonderland".
www.national.ballet.ca
October & November 2010
Richard is playing percussion in the Mirvish musical Wicked.
www.mirvish.com
Aug./Sept. 2010
Richard is playing in South Pacific at the Four Seaons Centre
www.dancap.ca
Jul., 2010
Richard plays in Miss Saigon at the Four Seasons Centre
www.dancap.ca
May 27, 2010
Richard is playing drum set under Marvin Hamlisch (Barbra Streisand, Liza Minelli music director) at the Adath Isreal Synagogue in Toronto.
www.marvinhamlisch.com
May 16, 2010
Richard is playing cimbalom and percussion with the Esprit Orchestra. One of the highlights is an excerpt from Dutch composer Louis Andriessen's opera, 'Vermeer Pictures'
www.espritorchestra.com
April 16 & 17, 2010
Richard plays drums with The Nylons at the Centre-In-The-Square in Kitchener
www.thenylons.com
January 23, 2010
Richard will be playing massive amounts of percussion and cimbalom in Frank Zappa's The Yellow Shark with the Toronto Philharmonia
www.torontophil.on.ca
December 2009
Richard joins the group Twist with founding members Charles Cozens, Lance Elbeck, Mark Thompson and Bob Mills. Twist is represented by Marilyn Gilbert Artist Management
www.mgam.com
November 15, 2009
Richard is snowmobile soloist in R. Murray Schafer's North/White for Snowmobile and Orchestra with the Esprit Orchestra
www.espritorchestra.com
March 2010
Richard performs for the first time with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in two programs
www.wso.ca
January 2010
Performs as soloist with the Missisauga Sinfonia Premiere of a new work by composer Larysa Kuzmenko for cimbalom and strings
www5.mississauga.ca/symphony
November 2009
Richard is now Principal Percussionist of the Hannaford Street Silver Band. See the season opener of the HSSB this month.
www.hssb.ca
October 2009
Richard will be perfroming in the Canadian Opera Company's The Nightingale & Other Short Fables
www.coc.ca
October 2009
Richard begins drum studies with drumming legend and renown teacher, Jim Blackley
www.jimblackley.com
October 28, 2009
Richard performs at the opening of the Toronto Raptor's v.s Cleveland game at the Air Canada Centre, televised live on TSN. 7pm
www.nba.com/raptors
September 2009
Richard will be perfroming with Toronto Philharmonia in the North American Premiere of Arvo Part's Symphony No.4
www.torontophil.on.ca
September 2009
Richard appears on composer Michael Horwood's and the Toronto Percussion Ensemble's new cd release, Percussionique
www.albanyrecords.com/Merchant2
May 2009
Upcoming performances include:
The Hannaford Street Silver Band and dance troupe 'Motus O' with guest conductor, David Briskin.
National Ballet of Canada's new production of 'Carmen' in June.
The musical 'Smile' at the Randolph Academy in July.
March 2009
Richard recorded album with Louise DeTullio. Louise is the first call flutist in Hollywood and has performed on hundreds of Hollywood film soundtracks from John Williams to Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith and many more.
March 2009
Richard is performing hammered dulcimer on the soundtrack to the new CBC Television Series "Wild Roses".
www.cbc.ca/wildroses
January 2009
Richard is working with legendary singer Jon Anderson of 'Yes' fame. Richard is recording percussion tracks for Jon's new solo project..
June 2008
Richard performs on the cimbalom with the Canadian Opera Company in Stravinsky's 'Renard'.
For more information visit: www.coc.ca
May 21, 2008
Richard will be performing Bruce Mather's 'Quatre Etudes pour cymbalum et marimba' at the Cool Drummings Festival with Soundstreams Canada. Richard Moore, cimbalom; Ryan Scott, marimba.
www.soundstreams.ca
May - June 2008
Richard will be playing percussion in the Mirvish Productions Toronto production of Ha' Penny Bridge.
Visit www.mirvish.com for details.
April 2008
Richard plays principal percussion on the soundtrack to the motion picture 'Gooby'. This film, directed by Wilson Coneybeare, is rated for Family audiences and it will go to the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in France.
www.coneybearestories.ca/gooby_intro.php
February 2008
We've created a Channel for Richard on the Video Sharing site Stage6.com
(Stage6 is similar to youtube). Please visit to see videos of Richard playing the Darbuka, Cimbalom and some older clips of Richard
playing drums with the alternative world rock band Blurred Vision.
Direct link to Richard's Stage 6 Channel:
www.stage6.com/Richard-Moore/
January 2008
Richard performs on an all Edgar Varese program with New Music Concerts.
For more information visit: www.newmusicconcerts.com
October 21 - November 3, 2007
Richard will be performing with the Toronto Consort
and Opera Atelier in the production of Monteverdi's
"The Return of Ulysses".
For more information visit:
www.torontoconsort.org
www.operaatelier.com
November 2007 - January 2008
Richard will playing percussion in Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' at the
Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts
For more visit: www.hummingbirdcentre.com
October 2007
Richard provides percussion and hammered dulcimer tracks to Jon Anderson's (of Yes fame) solo work 'Invent'.
For more visit Jon Anderson online: www.jonanderson.com
September - October 2007
Richard will playing percussion in Dancap Productions 'The Drowsey Chaperone' at the Elgin Theatre
For more visit: www.dancapproductions.com
July - September 2007
Richard will playing drum set in the musical Nunsense at the Stage West, Mississauga.
For more visit: www.stagewest.com
June 2007
Richard is performing in Matjash Mrozewski and composer Alexina Louie's new ballet the 'Wolf's Court' for the National Ballet of Canada.
For more visit: www.national.ballet.ca
May 30 2007
Richard performs William Bolcom's 'Black Host' with organist Michael Capon at the Organix Festival.
For more visit: www.organixconcerts.ca
May 18 - June 9, 2007
Richard is playing santur and middle-eastern percussion on the sound design recording of Tony Kushner's play 'Homebody/Kabul'. Sound design is by Toronto composer, Martin Deller.
For more visit: www.homebodykabul.ca
May 2007
Richard is playing santur and percussion in the recording for the Anthem for the Aga Khan by composer Amin Bhatia.
For more visit: www.bhatiamusic.com
March 5 & 6, 2007
Richard will performing on the cimbalom in Chris Paul Harman's 'Cello Concerto' with the
McGill University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of
Alexis Hauser.
These performances are part of the Montreal New Music Festival.
Montreal New Music Festival:
www.festivalmnm.ca
McGill University website:
www.mcgill.ca/music/
February - April 2007
Richard will performing in Guys and Dolls at Stage West, Mississauga.
www.stagewest.com
January 2007
Richard will be performing at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in a production of Cinderella.
www.rwb.org
January 2007
Richard will be performing in the Mozart opera Zaide with the Aradia Baroque Ensemble.
www.aradia.ca
October - December, 2006
Richard will playing percussion in the musical Wicked at the Canon Theatre.
For more information visit: www.wickedthemusical.com
September 30, 2006
Richard will be playing percussion in Play - A Video Game Symphony. The performance will be on September 30th at the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts.
For more information visit: www.play-symphony.com
August 19-27, 2006
Richard will be at the Edinburgh International Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland
performing in the Toronto based musical production of Rob Roy.
See: www.robroythemusical.com
July, 2006
Richard will be playing drums in the film Talk to Me starring
Don Cheadle, Martin Sheen and Cedric the Entertainer. Richard will be playing the drums in the scenes with the Tonight Show Band. The release date is 2007.
July 1, 2006
Richard will performing with the Maple Leaf Brass Band on Canada Day at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
For more information visit: www.mapleleafbrassband.org
June, 2006
Richard will be on the set this month playing drums in the Walt Disney Productions movie Molly, which takes place in the mid 1940's. One of the featured musical scenes in the film will be Sing, Sing, Sing, which was
originally recorded by the Benny Goodman band with Gene Krupa on the drums. Richard will be performing Gene's solo spots on this track. The film will be released in 2007.
June 16, 2006
Richard will performing with the Aradia Baroque Ensemble at the Grand River Baroque Festival.
For more information visit: www.grbf.ca
June 10, 2006
Richard will be performing in The Music of Styx with Dennis DeYoung the former lead singer of the rock band Styx.
For more information visit: www.hummingbirdcentre.com
May - October, 2006
Richard will be subbing in the Stratford Festival's production of Oliver.
For more information visit: www.stratford-festival.on.ca
May - July, 2006
Richard will be performing in Cabaret at Stage West, Mississauga.
For more information visit: www.stagewest.com
April 8, 2006
Richard will perform with Sarah Pacheco and her band at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga.
For more information visit: www.sarahpacheco.com
April, 2006
Richard will be performing in Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of 'Kismet'.
For more information visit: www.torontooperetta.com
March
Larry Bond Trio releases its seven song demo of jazz standards recorded at Q-Music, Toronto. Richard is playing drums.
March
Richard will be performing with his partner, Barbara Croall, in Barbara's piece Midawewe'igan / The Sound of the Drum with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra.
March 4 - April 23, 2006
You can hear Richard playing cimbalom and santur in 'Hana's Suitcase' at
the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People.
For more information visit:
www.lktyp.ca
February, 2006
Aradia Ensemble's new release of Handel's 'Water Music and Music for
the Royal Fireworks' is featured in the March issue of Gramophone
Magazine's 'Disc of the Month'.
For more information visit: www.gramophone.co.uk
February 15, 2006
Richard will be performing in Louis Andreissen's 'La Passione' at a
concert presented by the University Musical Society and the National
Institute of Humanities at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
February, 2006
You can hear Richard playing timpani and percussion on the Aradia Ensemble's
recording of Handel's opera 'Rinaldo'. (Naxos label - 8660165
-67)
January, 2006
You can hear Richard playing timpani on the Aradia Ensemble's recording
of Handel's 'Water Music' and 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' (Naxos
label - CD 8.557764). This cd comes in three formats: regular
CD audio (2 track
stereo), DSD and 5.1 Surround Sound. This CD release marks Richard's first
recording on a label in 5.1 and DSD.
December, 2005
Two new pages have been added to the site!
A Sound Clips page with downloadable samples
and a new Links page. If you would like to
be listed on Richard's links page Contact us.
January 5-8, 2006
Richard will be performing in the Music Of Andrew Lloyd Weber at The
Hummingbird Centre For The Performing Arts.
December, 2005
Look for an article on Richard and hammered dulcimers in the December issue
of Wholenote Magazine under 'TMA Notes'.
www.thewholenote.com
November, 2005
Richard can be heard playing baroque timpani on the recent release of Aradia
Ensemble's 'The Symphonies of William Boyce'. This new release
(on the NAXOS label) has already won an Editor's Choice award in Grammaphone
Magazine (August, 2005), as well as a recommendation to the 2005 Grammy
Awards.
November - December, 2005
Richard will be performing in the Drayton Entertainment production of Beauty And
The Beast
September - October, 2005
Richard will be performing in Mirvish Productions Les Miserables at the Pricess
Of Wales theatre
August - September, 2005
Recording 'Bartok 5 Re-Mix' (for amplified string quartet and drum set)
for the Penderecki String Quartet's upcoming release on the Eclectra label.
July, 25 2005
This November and December Richard will be performing in the Drayton
Entertainment production of Beauty And The Beast
July, 25 2005
This September and October Richard will be performing in Mirvish Productions Les
Miserables at the Princess Of Wales theatre, Toronto
July 16, 2005
Richard will be performing at the Festival Of The Sound in Parry Sound
with the Hannaford Street Silver Band. Also performing in the Toronto
production of Into The Woods at the Bathurst Street Theatre
June 22-28, 2005
Richard is playing congas in a backing band for Antonio Banderas in the
new Hollywood film " Take the Lead" being shot in Toronto.
May 1, 2005
Richard is performing with the National Ballet Of Canada in:
Michael Torke's
'The Italian Straw Hat'
May 1, 11-15, 2005: Hummingbird Centre for the Arts, Toronto
For more information visit:
www.national.ballet.ca
Also, the CD of 'The Italian Straw Hat' was just released this month on Ecstatic Records.
April 20, 2005
Richard will be playing cimbalom and percussion in:
Howard Shore's
'The Lord Of The Rings Symphony'
June 4, 2005: Centre in the Square, Kitchener
June 5, 2005: and Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto
For more information visit: www.kwphilharmonic.com/lotr-symphony and
www.roythomsonhall.com
April 17, 2005
Richard will soon be perfoming at:
From Eastern Europe, with Love
Friday, May 6, 2005, 8 PM
Lee Hyla and Polish music, 7:00 PM
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
For more information visit: www.bmv.org