musicianship
Richard Gard, Lecturer of Hearing, enjoys a successful career as a conductor, composer, teacher and producer with over 30 years of performance experience. A life-long church musician, Richard is Director of Music for Saint Thomas More Chapel at Yale and conducts the Chapel Choirs and the Bruckner Choir. Mr. Gard is concurrently Associate Professor of Music at Naugatuck Valley Community College where he chairs Connecticut's most comprehensive two-year music program.
Mr. Gard received his DMA and MM degrees from Yale School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music, and was honored at Yale with two named scholarships and four prizes. He is known as an outstanding teacher with two Connecticut State Merit Awards and a national teaching award. Richard's choral arrangements, translations and compositions have achieved national publication and production. Besides creating performing editions of early music, he publishes articles with an emphasis on the influence of courtly dance within Baroque sacred vocal music.