BIOGRAPHY Updated 1 Feb. 2025

”...although he is a young man, he is incredibly clever and very talented. It has been an
incredible journey to be part of [his creation].”

– José Luis Gómez on Klara Radio

Richard R. He is a Swedish-born pianist and composer. With classical music performance as his musical foundation, his own compositions aim for psychedelic and transcendent sounds with influences from rock, minimalism, and electronic music.

 

He has been awarded numerous awards in various disciples, including the EMJ Composition Prize 2024 (Pelt, Belgium), the third prize in Malmö Piano Competition 2022 (Sweden), Arts in Society Award 2021 (Belgium), third prize of the Vic Nees Composition Competition 2020 (Belgium), the STIM-scholarship (Sweden) in 2020 and the first prize in Chieri International Music Competition 2019 (Italy) in chamber music as Duo Volgaris with Bartolomeo Audisio.

 

His work “introspect” was performed by Flanders Symphony Orchestra (Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen) under the direction of José Luis Gómez in Bozar (Brussels), Brugge Concertgebouw, de Bijloke (Gent) and deSingel (Antwerp). His first music theatre “the search of silence” was premiered in de Nieuwe Zaal in Hasselt (Belgium) in December 2022, in cooperation with B-classic and VONK Atelier. His music has been performed by HERMES-Ensemble (Belgium), Jelena Stefanic (Croatia), ZWERM Electric Guitar Quartet (Belgium) and the pianist Marianne Jacobs (Sweden), among others.

 

R.R. He graduated classical piano in Royal Conservatoire Antwerp with Prof. Sergei Edelmann and composition with Wim Henderickx and Bram van Camp. He also holds a diploma in educative master (composition) from Antwerp. Previous mentors include Ass.Prof. Marianne Jacobs, Malmö and Joël Bons, Amsterdam (winner of the Grawemeyer Award 2019), among many others in various master classes in Austria, England, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, and Lithuania.

 

His debut-album “Regression” is released on digital platforms as “Duo Volgaris”, which received high acclaims from the newspaper “Ystads Allehanda”. Richard is coordinator of the cultural organisation SUGARBOX (Ystad, Sweden) and member of  Flanders Composers Archipelago (ComAV). Future performances of his music: I SOLISTI (Belgium), Johnny Mus (Belgium), MISA Festival (Shanghai, China) and the rock band SAGE.