An online collaboration ended with a standing ovation for Eric Richards. The assistant professor of composition and jazz studies premiered a three-movement concert work in December during the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. The composition was created after a request from the leader of the Rob Parton Big Band, a 19-piece jazz ensemble. […]

Eric Richards, assistant professor of composition and jazz studies at UNL, will present two new works in October in concert venues in Omaha and Shanghai, China. The United States Air Force Brass In Blue, a symphonic brass ensemble, will premier Richards’ new three movement work “Three Scenes for American Trombone and Brass Orchestra” for solo […]