Australian cellist Richard Narroway is Lecturer in Cello at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. Praised by Gramophone Magazine for his captivating sensitivity and exhilarating authority, Richard enjoys an international career as a sought-after performer, recording artist, and teacher. He has given performances across Australia, North America, Europe, and Asia, in prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Koerner Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. As a result of his stylistic versatility, innovative programming, and wide-ranging musical pursuits, Richard has earned an international reputation as one of his generation's most notable artists.

In 2017, Richard made his recording debut with Bach's Six Cello Suites, released to international acclaim. Gramophone described the recording as rivetingan adventure in expressive possibility. Since its release, the album has been streamed well over a million times, and continues to gain impressive traction around the world. His most recent album, Requiem, released on Australia's premier label ABC Classics, also received stellar reviews from the press, described by Limelight Magazine in a five-star review as "relentlessly stunning." In addition, Richard has achieved top prizes at several major competitions, including the Stulberg International String Competition, the Beijing International Cello Competition, and the Australian Youth Classical Music Competition. In 2020 he was announced winner of The Music Trust's Freedman Classical Fellowship, offered to an exceptional instrumentalist annually.

A passionate advocate of new music, Richard's collaborative projects with composers have taken him all around the globe, resulting in premiere performances in the United States, China, Australia, and New Zealand. From 2016-18 he performed as part of the resident contemporary ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival, premiering dozens of new works. In 2018 he also became a founding member of the Four Corners Ensemble, a group dedicated to celebrating diversity through new music.

Deeply committed to community engagement and innovation, he takes a particular interest in devising projects that bring classical music to a wider audience. In 2019 he completed a video series involving tutorials of the twelve Piatti Caprices, uploaded on Youtube. From 2016-18 he also served as co-founder and artistic director of Chamber Music Michigan, an organization committed to bringing chamber music to communities across the state. Since 2015 Richard has enjoyed an ongoing artistic partnership with the Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD, a project offering dance classes for people with Parkinson's disease.

Richard earned degrees from the Juilliard School and Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, before completing a Doctorate at the University of Michigan, where he also served as teaching assistant. Shortly after, he was named a Rebanks fellow at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he served as teaching assistant to the professor.

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