Richard Carrick

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Carrick is the co-founder and artistic director of the Either/Or ensemble. An advocate for young composers, he has founded several mentorship programs around the world, aided by his recognition as a Guggenheim Fellow, and he is the chair of the composition department at the Berklee College of Music. In 2025, Either/Or, with Carrick on piano, issued the album Richard Carrick: The Atlas on New Focus Recordings. Carrick was born in Paris in 1971. He attended Columbia University from 1990 to 1993, earning a bachelor's degree in music and...