About this user
Richard Barry is an exciting new addition to the world of the classical guitar. His performances are exciting, and his signature style includes the interlacing of thrilling virtuosity with a masterful sense of musicality.
Richard started playing the guitar at the age of 5, and by 9 gave his first public performance. By the age of 12 he had already won several competitions and began studying with Pablo Cohen the professor of guitar at Ithaca College and Cornell University. At 18 he entered the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore where he received the prestigious Rose and Leon J. Neiburg Scholarship and during graduate school was given a full scholarship teaching assistantship.
At the age of 23 Richard has completed 2 bachelor degrees, 2 graduate degrees, and the performer's certificate, in only 6 years, from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. For over 7 years Richard has been studying with Julian Gray. He has participated in several master classes with artists such as Manuel Barrueco , Pepe Romero , Scott Tennant , Eduardo Fernandez, Bruce Holzman, Ana Vidovic, Sergio and Odair Assad , Eliot Fisk , Paul O'dette and Nigel North .
Richard has given public recitals in Quebec City, Vancouver, Caracas, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. An excellent chamber music collaborator, Richard is also the founder and director of the Mozart Duo, an elegant combination of the violin and guitar. Specializing in music from the classical period, the duo has performed throughout the United States.
Also an advocate of music in the schools, he is active in promoting the growth of these programs. He has been a theory instructor for the department of music at the Cadek Conservatory of The University of Tennessee , and is currently a guitar instructor at TWIGS for The Baltimore School of the Arts TWIGS and at for Levine School of Music Session A and B at the Strathmore and North West locations Washington D.C. He has also taught undergraduate classes for the music education department of Johns Hopkins and served as an adjunct instructor in guitar at the Essex and Catonsville Community Colleges of the Community Colleges of Baltimore County.
