Richard Birchall

Cellist

Richard Birchall read Music at Cambridge University and studied as a postgraduate cellist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Richard's arrangements and compositions have been performed at the UK’s most
prestigious venues and in Europe, the USA, Australia and South Korea, and have been
broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and French, German and Danish national
radio. Recent orchestral works include a Clarinet Concerto for Michael Collins (released
on the BIS label) and Labyrinth for cello and orchestra (Signum Classics). Chamber music includes two string quartets, Sonata for solo cello, Contours for piano trio, and a set of story-pieces for cello octet: Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows were premiered and recorded by Cellophony with Simon Callow as narrator, and have since been translated into three other languages and arranged for mixed ensemble.
Richard has been commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Esbjerg Ensemble
(Denmark), the Philharmonia, the London Cello Orchestra, the Doric and Tippett quartets,Trio Klein, violist Lawrence Power and many others.