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Richard O. Burdick (B. April 27, 1961) a Canadian / American composer and French hornist.

1) Life Richard Oscar Burdick was born in Berkeley California in 1961 His Father Rev. Oscar Burdick worked as a librarian for Pacific School of Religion and still plays organ for Arlington Community Church, the Seventh Day Baptist Church and Pacific School of Religion.

Richard Grew up in El Cerrito California attending El Cerrito High School from 1975 to 1978. He was a composition major at California State University @ Hayward from 1978-1981 studying with Robert Basart and Glen Glasow.

Mr. Burdick Managed Trinity Chamber Concerts a chamber music series in Berkeley from 1984-2003 producing over 400 concerts during his tenure. At least 30 of his compositions premiered on the Trinity Chamber Concert series.

He worked full-time as fourth Horn of Sacramento Symphony from 1990-1996 for whom he wrote a few arrangements. He has been principle horn of Regina Symphony in Regina, Saskatchewan since 2003. He has been the Instructor of Horn at the University of Regina since 2004.

Richard Burdick wrote a number of compositions in the 1970's in an experimental graphic form greatly influenced by the Dutch composer Ton Brynel. Starting in the early 1980's Richard has been work on compositions mostly based on the 64 scales inspired by the the I Ching. His compositions are not chance works like what John Cage did with the I Ching, but his use of the I Ching is structural. Like the scales of Northern India, the trigrams (each of three lines suggesting half and wholes steps) are separated by a perfect fifth. His first version of these scales did not have the separation of the fifth. The third (and current) version of his scales keeps the fifth separation, but is overlaid upon the harmonic series; each scale has it's own key based on the harmonics from 64 to 128. The pattern of scales upon the harmonic series is based on the Shau Yung I ching circle.

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