Richard Brice
Violist Richard Brice has been busy in New York’s freelance music scene
since his high school days when he attended the famous High School of
Music and Art in Manhattan, studying viola with Theodore Israel and
Eugene Becker. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the
Juilliard School, where he studied viola with William Lincer and chamber
music with Felix Galimir, Paul Doktor, and the members of the Juilliard
String Quartet.
He has toured throughout Germany, France, Italy and
Spain as soloist and principal violist of the Munich Chamber Orchestra
after making his debut as soloist with the orchestra in 1984. Mr. Brice
was principal violist of the Southwest German Philharmonic and the
Konzertverein St. Gallen, and he was associate principal violist of the
Orquestra Sinfonica de Venezuela. As a chamber musician he was a
founding member of the Quartetto National de Venezuela, he was the
violist of the chamber music ensemble An die Musik from 1985 to 2002,
and he has been a guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
He is currently a member of The Orchestra of St. Luke’s and was the
principal violist of the Philharmonic Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. He is
equally at home in the realm of popular music, serving as principal
violist for Barbara Streisand’s European Tours, Encores! at City Center,
Patti Lupone’s Matters of the Heart for String Quartet and Piano, and
many Broadway shows.
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