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Richard Conrad studied singing with Harry Euler Treiber in Boston, and in Germany with Gisela Rohmert. While still a student, his ability to meet the technical and stylistic demands of music of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries resulted in an invitation from Decca (London) to record arias and ensembles of this period with Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, and Richard Bonynge (The Age of Bel Canto and Arias from Handel's Julius Caesar) which brought him into international prominence. His performances of the bel canto literature include A Primer on Prima Donnas (again with Miss Sutherland and Mr. Bonynge; now available on Video VA1 69401) for CBC-TV, a series, Coloratura, for the National Educational Network in Boston, and a cycle of programs on florid song, which he wrote and performed for the Radio-Televisione Italiana in Rome. His European debut took place in Geneva when he was soloist with L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Since then he has performed in concert and opera tours, and in plays, operettas, and musicals all over Europe, Britain, the United States, Canada, Africa, and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Conrad is founder and former Artistic Director of Boston Academy of Music. In 2002 Conrad and artists of Boston Academy of Music founded The Bostonian Opera and Concert Ensemble (aka Richard Conrad’s THE BOSTONIANS). |
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