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 Hailed by Richard Dyer of the Boston
Globe as an “exceedingly gifted trumpeter,” and
complimented by Wynton Marsalis for his “wide open,
soulful sound,” Richard
Watson has
appeared as soloist with the Nashua, Worcester, and
Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Salem and North Shore
Philharmonic Orchestras, the New England Chamber
Orchestra, and the Waldstadt Kammerorchester
Karlsruhe. In addition to serving as Principal
Trumpet of the Nashua Symphony Orchestra, he is a member
of the Boston Philharmonic and the Granite State Symphony
Orchestras and appears frequently with the Albany
Symphony, the Portland Symphony, and the Rhode Island
Philharmonic. After graduating from Walnut Hill
School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts and the New
England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Mr. Watson spent
three summers as a member of the Tanglewood Music Center
Orchestra where he received the Wynton Marsalis
Fellowship in 1995. Also active as a chamber
musician, he is a member of the Majestic Brass and is a
frequent guest artist with the Huntington Brass Quintet,
the Triton Brass Quintet, and Innovata. Watson’s
principal trumpet teachers have been James Pandolfi,
Vincent Penzarella, Charles Schlueter, and David
Dubinsky, and his solfege teacher was Larry Scripp.
Mr. Watson can be heard on recordings with the Boston
Symphony (Berlioz Requiem), the Boston Pops (Summon
the Heroes), and the Boston Philharmonic (Beethoven
9, Rite of Spring, Petrushka, Mahler
6, Shostakovich 5), and on the Sony
Classical video series, Marsalis on Music. A
native of Danvers, Massachusetts, Watson now lives in
Peabody, Massachusetts with his wife Jacqueline and his
dog Shelby.
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