RICKARDS, STEVEN Steven Rickards has received international claim as one of
America's finest countertenors. He was the first countertenor to be awarded
a Master of Music degree in vocal performance from Indiana University, receiving
his artist diploma in 1979. In 1981 Rickards received a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship
and a Rotary International Grant for continued studies at the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama in London. He also studied in Aldeburgh with Peter Pears
and Robert Spencer. He has appeared with a wide variety of early music ensembles
in the United States and Britain, in addition to performances with the Opera
Company of Philadelphia, the Santa Fe Opera, and the symphony orchestras of
St Louis, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh. He has sung at Carnegie Hall with the
Oratorio Society of New York and in France with Robert Shaw.
In 1996 he participated,
as co-organizer and juror, in the Alfred Deller Memorial Countertenor Competition
in 's-Hertogenbosch. Among other distinguished collaborations, in 1994 he made
his début with the New York Mostly Mozart Festival in Bach's Mass in B minor
with the Bach Ensemble under the direction of Joshua Rifkin and subsequently
appeared at a London Promenade Concert performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion
with the same director.
Steven Rickards has also appeared in modem repertoire,
including the world premiere in 1993 in Prague of Ladislav Kubik's homage to
Franz Kafka, Der Weg, as well as in modern revivals of rarer Baroque repertoire.
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