MUSIC OF AMERICA

3 December 2016, Bulgaria Concert Hall, 19:30

“SYMPHONIC OSCARS”
Classic FM Radio Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Kaufman
Music from: The Old Man and the Sea, The Mission, The Magnificent Seven, Superman, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Poltergeist, Witches of Eastwick, Star Wars – The Force Awakens!

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Richard Kaufman has devoted much of his musical life to conducting and supervising music for film and television productions, as well as performing film and classical music in concert halls and on recordings. The 2015-2016 concert season marks Richard’s twenty-fifth season as Principal Pops Conductor of Orange County’s Pacific Symphony. He holds the permanent title of Pops Conductor Laureate with the Dallas Symphony, and is in his tenth season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert series, ‘CSO at the Movies’, conducting classic and contemporary film music, as well as classical music used in motion pictures. Richard regularly appears as a guest conductor with symphony orchestras throughout both the United States and around the world including Cleveland, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Utah, San Diego, Edmonton, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland.
In October of 2011, Richard conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in a concert presenting the film music of Oscar-winning composer Dimitri Tiomkin. This performance is the first film music recording released on the LSO LIVE recording label. It was nominated for a 2013 Grammy (Best Instrumental Accompaniment for a Vocal – “Wild is the Wind” – Arranger Nan Schwartz), and was also among several LSO recordings produced by James Mallinson, and for which he received a Grammy nomination in the category of “Best Classical Producer”.With a life-long passion for film music, Richard often conducts programs featuring live performances of entire scores while the film is shown. These include “The Wizard of Oz”, “Casablanca”, “Bride of Frankenstein”, “Psycho”, “Fantasia”, “Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2”, “Singin’ in the Rain”, “Vertigo”, “Star Trek 2009” the Chaplin classic “City Lights” and numerous other silent films.
He has conducted for performers including John Denver, Andy Williams, Amy Grant, Mary Martin, Nanette Fabray, Martin Short, Sandi Patty, Eileen Ivers, Juliet Prowse, Sir James Galway, Diana Krall, Chris Botti, Michael W. Smith, The Pointer Sisters, Arturo Sandoval, The Beach Boys, Monica Mancini, Peter Paul and Mary, Patty Austin, Robert Goulet, David Copperfield, Davis Gaines, The Righteous Brothers, Martin Short, Jim Brickman, “America”, and Art Garfunkel.