Researching Richard Carrick
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2154 people with the Carrick surname? In that year Carrick was ranked number 1747 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Richard means "strong ruler" and is of German origin.
Records of Richard Carrick on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Richard Carrick and the Carrick Family Tree
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 2338 people with the Carrick surname in the UK? Carrick is now ranked number 2137 for popularity in the UK. |
Carrick Family Tree Databases
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Carrick Forums
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Carrick surname in the USA? Carrick is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Richard Carrick. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Richard Carrick
Richard Carrick
Richard David Carrick (born 1971 in Paris, France) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition for 2015-16 while living in Kigali, Rwanda. His compositions are influenced by diverse sources including traditional Korean Gugak music, the flow concept of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Gnawa Music of Morocco, Jazz, experimental music, concepts of infinity, the works of Italo Calvino and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his work as improviser.
He is co-founder/co-artistic director of the critically acclaimed experimental music ensemble Either/Or with whom he performs regularly as pianist and conductor.
Carrick is currently Chair of the Composition Department at Berklee College of Music. In 2011 and 2013 Carrick was Adjunct Associate Professor of Composition at Columbia University and taught composition and history at New York University 2009–2012. For a decade he trained young composers for the New York Philharmonic in New York City and internationally.
He has received numerous awards including a 2015–16 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2015 Gugak Fellowship for Korean Traditional Music, and a Fromm Commission of Harvard University.
His music, described as “charming, with exoticism and sheer infectiousness” by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times, has been performed internationally by the New York Philharmonic, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, ISCM World Music Days-Switzerland], Darmstadt Summer Festival, Tokyo International House, Merkin Hall, Nieuw Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, soloists Tony Arnold, Marilyn Nonken, Magnus Andersson, Carin Levine, Rohan de Saram, David Shively, and others.
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