Dr. Richards with participants at recent conferences in September in Dubai and Iran.
Support for School Chamber Music Groups
Jack Richards is now offering travel support to all competitors who reach the finals in the New Zealand Chamber Music Competition, an annual competition for school chamber music groups that attracts over 500 entrants every year.
Some 40 make their way to the national finals that are held either in Wellington, Auckland or Christchurch and all will now receive a Jack Richards travel grant.
Curriculum Development in Language Teaching 2nd Edition
The second edition of Dr. Richards' book Curriculum Development in Language Teaching has been published.
The new edition is a substantial revision of the first edition and contains 60% of new content
Jack Sponsors New Zealand Tour by Two Distinguished Latin-American Pianists
In February and March 2017 Jack Richards sponsored a series of New Zealand concerts by EDITH FISCHER – pianist and protégé of Claudio Arrau and Founder and Artistic Director of Semaine Internationale de Piano et Musique de Chambre, Blonay, Switzerland, and her husband JORGE PEPI-ALOS – pianist and composer Professor at the University of Chile, Santiago. Their visit included a piano recital for four-hands as part of the Tiromoana Summer Concert Series (held in Jack and Won Gyu Moon’s New Zealand summer residence) as well as a recital as part of the Creative New Zealand/Jack C Richards Composer in Residence Program at Victoria University, Wellington.
In the photo Jack is seen with Edith and Jorge following their Christchurch recital, and together with Christchurch pianist Tony Chen Lin, who accompanied the musicians on their New Zealand tour.
Gisborne art collector shaken by earthquake
“A bit of excitement” is how Gisborne art collector and philanthropist Jack Richards described his terrifying experience of the magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake in his Wellington apartment...
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Ao Ran (Ph.D) & Miller Perez (MA, Applied Linguistics)
Two students who received Jack C Richards scholarships to support their graduate studies graduated from the National University of Singapore in July 26 2016.
Ao Ran (Ph.D) and Miller Perez (MA, Applied Linguistics)
Appealing objects
Eloise Wallace, the director of Tairāwhiti Museum, talks about the Jack C Richards Decorative Arts Gallery in a post on the museum’s blog entitled Appealing objects – decorative arts at Tairāwhiti Museum.