Colleen Richardson
DMA (Cincinnati)
MMus (Calgary)
Coordinator of Bands
Wind Ensemble Director
Assistant Professor, Music Education & Music Performance Studies
Within the Music Performance Studies Department, Colleen Richardson oversees the bands, directs the UWO Wind Ensemble, and teaches graduate courses/seminars in conducting. She also teaches Instrumental Ensemble Techniques and Instrumental Literature and Techniques within the Music Education Department.
Dr. Richardson is sought after as a clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator across Canada. Her research interests include wind literature, chamber wind repertoire, conducting pedagogy, ensemble rehearsal techniques, Messiaen’s compositional techniques, and Varèse’s connections with visual artists. She recently presented her research at conferences in Taiwan, Ireland, Switzerland, and Italy.
Before her Western appointment, Dr. Richardson was Assistant Professor of Music Education and the Wind Ensemble Director at Converse College in South Carolina. She taught conducting, instrumental methods, woodwind techniques, and general music methods, as well as supervised student teachers.
Dr. Richardson, a native of Winnipeg, graduated from Brandon University with a bachelor’s degree in music education and earned a Wind Conducting Diploma from the University of Calgary. While working towards her diploma, she studied with many well respected composers and conductors, including: Craig Kirchhoff, Karel Husa, Warren Benson, David Maslanka, Eugene Corporon, Mallory Thompson, Dale Lonis, Allan Bell, Robert Reynolds, Jerry Junkin and Tyrone Paterson. In 2001, she received her master’s degree in conducting with Dr. Glenn Price at the University of Calgary.
Dr. Richardson completed her DMA in Wind Conducting with Rodney Winther in 2005 at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she taught undergraduate conducting, was involved with the supervision of undergraduate music education students during their practicum, and regularly conducted works with the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Chamber Winds, and Chamber Players. Along with her activities at CCM, Dr. Richardson co-directed the Tri-State Chamber Players, as well as served as the Music Director and Conductor of the Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Richardson taught general, choral, and instrumental music in the Canadian public school system for 14 years. She was an active clinician and conductor for a number of ensembles, including the University of Manitoba Tuesday Jazz Ensemble, the Manitoba Band Association Summer Band Program, the Parkland Regional Junior Honour Band, the Manitoba Provincial Honour Band and the Long & McQuade All-Star Wind Ensemble. Dr. Richardson served as the Chairperson for the Optimist International Band Festival Committee for seven years, and she was the Business Manager for the Winnipeg Wind Ensemble and performed in the ensemble for seven seasons. Dr. Richardson was selected as “Outstanding Conductor” at Musicfest Canada in 1996.
INVITED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Richardson, Colleen. “Making Connections: Avant-garde Visual Artists and Varèse.” In
Integrated Music Education: Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Training, ed.
Markus Cslovjecsek, and Madeleine Zulauf, (pages). Bern: Peter Lang, (in press,
release expected in Autumn 2011).
Richardson, Colleen. “Teacher Resource Guide: Gilded Theatre – Kenneth Hesketh.” In
Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, vol. 8, ed. Richard Miles, 1036–
1049. Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2010.
Richardson, Colleen. “Teacher Resource Guide: Overture for Winds – Charles Carter.” In
Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, vol. 1, ed. Richard Miles, 350–
358. Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2010.
Richardson, Colleen. “Teacher Resource Guide: April – Aaron Perrine.” In Teaching
Music Through Performance in Band, vol. 7, ed. Richard Miles, 163–170.
Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2009.
Richardson, Colleen. “Teacher Resource Guide: Fantasy on Childhood Songs –
David W. Moore.” In Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, vol.
6, ed. Richard Miles, 362–70. Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2007.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Richardson, Colleen. “Selecting Slow Repertoire.”
Canadian Music Educator Journal. 51, no. 1 (2009): 35–36.
Richardson, Colleen. “Teaching Students to Be Rhythmically Independent.’” Canadian
Music Educator Journal, 49, no. 3 (2008): 41–43.
Richardson, Colleen. “Motivation and the ‘Likeability Factor.’” Canadian Winds,
5, no. 1 (2006): 44–45.
REFEREED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
WASBE Conference, Chiayi City, Taiwan 8 July 2011
(World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles)
Messiaen: The Interaction of Birdsong, Plainchant, Color, and Hindu Rhythms to Delineate Form
ISME, Bologna, Italy 25 July 2008
(International Society for Music Education)
Varèse, Duchamp and the Influence of Early Twentieth-century Artistic Rhetoric
PRIME, Solothurn, Switzerland 17 July 2008
(Practice and Research in Integrated Music Education)
Pre-Seminar to the ISME World Conference
Integrated Music Education: Models, Practice, and Visions from Canada
Presenters: Kari Veblen, Colleen Richardson, Sherry Johnson
My topic (Practice): Making Connections: Avant-garde Visual Artists and Varèse
WASBE Conference, Killarney, Ireland 11 July 2007
(World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles)
Research Session 8: Varèse and Duchamp: Different Media, Similar Inspiration
REFEREED NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
OMEA Conference, London, ON 6 November 2010
(Ontario Music Educators Association)
A Conducting laboratory; Dissecting Different Styles
OMEA Conference, Toronto, ON 7 November 2009
(Ontario Music Educators Association)
The Rehearsal Hierarchy
OMEA Conference, Toronto, ON 8 November 2008
(Ontario Music Educators Association)
Ideas for Avoiding the Warm-up Rut
Canadian Symposium on Arts and Learning 2008, 30 October 2008
Kingston, ON
Integrated Music Education: Models, Practice, and Visions from Canada
Presenters: Kari Veblen, Colleen Richardson, Sherry Johnson
OMEA Conference, London, ON 3 November 2006
(Ontario Music Educators Association)
Good Conducting Decisions = Effective Rehearsal Strategies = Responsive Performers
INVITED NATIONAL WORKSHOPS/SYMPSOSIA
Acadia University Summer Conducting Symposium, 12-14 August 2010
Wolfville, NS
Featured Conducting Clinician
Mount Allison University Wind Band Conductor’s Seminar, 26 September 2009
Sackville, NB
Featured Conducting Clinician
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