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 Since
relocating to Vienna, Austria over two decades ago, Richard Fuller
has become pre-eminent as an interpreter of the classical fortepiano
repertoire. He has performed in Vienna's Konzerthaus, Gesellschaft
der Musikfreunde in Wien, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Wigmore
Hall and innumerable other major venues and festivals in Europe,
USA and Central America. Fuller is one of the few who has sought
to address himself exclusively to the interpretive potential of
the fortepiano, its subtle sensitivity and delicacy evoking an earlier
- in many respects lost - keyboard culture. Most significantly,
Fuller succeeds brilliantly in projecting these qualities to the
listener.
Born in Washington State (USA), Fuller studied initially with his
mother, later taking degrees in piano and musicology at Central
Washington University and the University of Oregon, He studied harpsichord
and fortepiano in San Francisco and Vienna. The emphasis of his
artistic work lies in the interpretation of the piano, chamber music
and the Lied repertoire of the Viennese Classical and early Romantic
periods, performed on the fortepiano. His concert work has led him
to the musical centers of North America and Europe where he appears
as soloist, accompanist and member of numerous chamber music ensembles
devoted primarily to the performance of 18th century music on authentic
instruments. In addition he has collaborated with artists James
Levine (with the Vienna Philharmonic), Emma Kirkby, Maria Bader-Kubizek,
Andrew Manze, Klaus Mertens, Claus Ocker, Wolfgang Holzmair, the
Festetics String Quartet (Budapest), Vienna Academy Orchestra, Musica
Aeterna Bratislava, and Capella Musicae Graz; live concerts in radio
and television, film music, broadcast productions for German Radio
(Cologne), North German Radio (Hamburg), Austrian National Radio,
BBC and the Hungarian National Radio as well as numerous CD recordings
in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Slovakia. Fuller's discography
also includes noted premiere recordings of the piano Quartets of
J.B. Vanhal with Musica Aeterna Bratislava, the solo piano works
of Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) and the recently-completed cycle of
12 piano sonatas of Hyacinthe Jadin (1776-1800).
In 2002, Richard Fuller received from the University of Oregon,
the Distinguished Alumnus Award for his artistic work. In 2005 Fuller
was named artist of the year in Wien-Donaustadt. In 2006 Fuller
initiated and directed the multi-media Donaustädter Mozart
Project, a comprehensive series of performances dedicated to the
piano music, chamber music and vocal music of Mozart's Vienna Years
(1781-1791). Other recent projects include a recordings of 4 piano
Sonatas by Haydn on one of Haydn's few known pianos, as well as
a comprehensive project in 2008 and 2009 in connection with the
Haydn-Year 2009 of Haydn's piano music, vocal music and chamber
music ("...einfach haydnisch...").
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