Bradley Nathan Richter (born August 9, 1969) is an American

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Education and background

Richter was born in

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in 1969. At the age of 18, Richter was awarded the Presidential Scholarship to the

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in Chicago where he began performing, composing, and eventually teaching professionally. After completing his undergraduate degrees in performance and composition, Richter accepted a scholarship to the

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in London where he studied with guitarist Carlos Bonell.

Career highlights

After completing his master's degree at the Royal College of Music in London, Richter has performed throughout North America and Europe as a soloist and in duos with artists such as Grammy-winner David Finckel of the

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, Royal College of Music Professor Carlos Bonell, and Viktor Uzur (cello) as the Richter Uzur Duo. Festival appearances have included The Aspen Music Festival, The London International Guitar Festival and the Walnut Valley Festival, where he won the National Finger-picking Championship in 1999. Richter is also an accomplished composer. In addition to his collections of concert music for solo guitar (published by

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and GSP), Richter is an avid composer of chamber music. He is a winner of the International Composers Guild Competition, and he wrote and performed a score for the Emmy award-winning PBS television series, ''The Desert Speaks''. Richter is regularly featured on NPR's ''

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'' as a soloist and with the Richter Uzur Duo.

Residency and outreach

Richter has taught at the Sherwood Conservatory of Music in Chicago and the

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and given workshops around the United States since 1995. Most notably he is the co-founder and Executive Director of Lead Guitar, a nonprofit organization that establishes guitar programs in schools with large populations of at-risk kids. In 2013 Lead Guitar became part of the

where Richter is now the Director of Arts Outreach for the College of Fine Arts.

Selected works

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