Richard Birchall
Richard Birchall read Music at Cambridge University (studying composition with Giles Swayne) and studied as a postgraduate cellist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under Louise Hopkins. He later completed studies in Film Music composition at Goldsmiths College. Richard pursues a varied and colourful career as cellist, composer, arranger and orchestrator.
Richard’s arrangements and compositions have been performed at the BBC Proms, Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Purcell Room, The Sage Gateshead and throughout the UK, and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and French and German national radio. Richard has completed numerous transcriptions for Cellophony cello octet, and also produced commissioned arrangements for artists including Lawrence Power, the Doric Quartet, and the Tippett Quartet (Psycho Suite, subsequently released on the Signum label); also the London Cello Orchestra and the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra. In recent years Richard has turned increasingly to original composition. His piece Mirrors was written for Cellophony and premiered in the Park Lane Group series at the Purcell Room in January 2011; since then he has completed various works for chamber ensembles, following commissions by the Minerva Trio, the Piatti Quartet, and from individual artists. Recent works include Alice in Wonderland for eight cellos and narrator; Labyrinth for cello and chamber orchestra; Perhaps for soprano and orchestra, commissioned by De Montfort University; a second string quartet, Hands; and a set of miniatures for cello and harp.
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Richard Birchall
Abstracts
for piano solo
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Richard Birchall
Alice in Wonderland
a musical story for eight cellos and narrator based on the novel by Lewis Carroll
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Franz Schubert arr. Richard Birchall
An Die Musik
for string quartet
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Trad. French arr. Richard Birchall
Angels We Have Heard On High
arranged for wind quintet
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Felix Mendelssohn arr. Richard Birchall
Ave Maria
arranged for cello octet
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Richard Birchall
Contours
for piano trio
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Richard Birchall
Delirium
for two violins
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Richard Birchall
Distraction
a miniature for piano quintet
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Johannes Brahms/Franz Schubert arr. Richard Birchall
Four Songs for the Seasons
arranged for solo viola and string orchestra
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Claude Debussy arr. Richard Birchall
Golliwog’s Cake-Walk
arranged for cello octet
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Richard Birchall
Hands
for string quartet
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Richard Birchall
In Dulci Jubilo
traditional arranged for four horns
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Richard Birchall
Labyrinth
for cello and chamber orchestra
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Richard Birchall
Mirrors
three miniatures for cello octet
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Edward Elgar arr. Richard Birchall
Nimrod
from the Enigma Variations arranged for cello octet
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Richard Wagner arr. Richard Birchall
Prelude: Tristan and Isolde
arranged for cello octet
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Richard Birchall
Shape-sorter
for string quartet
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Franz Gruber arr. Richard Birchall
Silent Night
for cello octet
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Antonin Dvorak arr. Richard Birchall
Silent Woods
arranged for cello octet
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Ivor Gurney arr. Richard Birchall
Sleep (version for string orchestra and viola)
arranged for solo viola and string orchestra
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