Fourth Coast Ensemble performs Fish 'N Chicks along with other composers' works on a field trip to the zoo!
Welcome!
RICHARD PEARSON THOMAS is a composer, pianist and lyricist whose works have been performed by the Boston Pops, Covent Garden Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Banff Centre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra, Riverside Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, and California State Fullerton Opera Theatre. His songs have been sung in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, and before the U.S. Congress. He is on faculty at Columbia University Teachers College and has taught at Yale.
“Mr. Thomas has listened acutely to the world around him. He can bounce with nervous metric energy or sing simply …” The New York Times
If you're looking for vocal music by Richard Pearson Thomas, many songs are available at Classical Vocal Rep.
Instrumental and orchestral music are available at Lauren Keiser Music.
Please check out my comic opera A Wake or a Wedding!
Previous events
Premiere of RPT arrangements of Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues for string quartet
Works by RPT and others
RPT joins Darci Bultema, soprano & Audrey Miller, Clarinet at Northern State University
Premiered by Marie-Aline Cadieux and Dan Immel
Kimberly James sings this piece for mezzo-soprano and piano quintet inspired by the writing of Willa Cather
Program includes Naho Parrini playing Dirty Music! Celebrating true stories of courageous people from around the world who are preserving and protecting our Planet and its indigenous cultures. Dedicated to increasing awareness of the connection between the environment and social justice, women's wisdom and indigenous knowledge, PARADIGM SHIFTS, MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL pairs compelling independent films with artists performing a variety of music and dance.
NATS-NYC proudly presents Tom Cipullo, Roy Jennings, Dorothy Rudd Moore and Richard Pearson Thomas in an afternoon of American Song. This free event is in celebration of World Voice Day. Free, but you must register.
Program includes premiere of a new piano solo by RPT!
Pleaides Project performs Portraits of Imagined Love
featuring the world premiere of PORTRAITS OF IMAGINED LOVE by RPT and works by turn of the century female composers
The Mirror Visions Ensemble collaborate with students in a concert of Cabaret music including 6 world premieres by RPT
Program features "They Were Dancing"!
Program features "They Were Dancing"!
Duo Terlano will premiere They Were Dancing... for violin and cello
Move Into the Light
James Chapel at Union Thelogical Seminary, 3041 Broadway (at 121st Street), New York, NY
Encompass New Opera Theatre presents Move Into the Light as a kick-off for their 2017 Paradigm Shifts. The program includes vocal works by RPT and others, as well as RPT's piano trio, Driving at Night.
Senior Recital of Grace Canfield, soprano, with Kadelan Tran Terrell, piano, and Jessie Fellows, violin
Lauren Dwane sings Cabaret Songs by RPT on her recital.