A native New Yorker, RICHARD MYRON earned his B.M. degree at the Juilliard School as a student of Homer Mensch. Awarded the Frederick Zimmermann Memorial Scholarship, he earned a year later his M.M. degree. His many interests have led him to work with such diverse artists as Leonard Bernstein, William Christie, Gustave Leonhardt, Giora Feidman, Jaap Schröder, Dizzy Gillespie and Jordi Savall. His studies of early music, and great friendship with Albert Fuller have led to his activities as an internationally recognized specialist in historic performance practice with the contrabass and violone.
Currently residing in Paris, Mr. Myron is professor of contrabass and chamber music in the early music department of the Conservatoire Supérieur-CNR de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Music de Paris, where he also teaches sight-reading to the modern bassists. Each year, he conducts a Bach cantata program with the baroque orchestra and choir of the CNSM, and is called upon to give master classes in regional conservatories throughout France(Toulouse, St Maur, Aubervilliers).
A founding member of the Freiburger Barockorchester and Consort, the Atlantis Ensemble,Il Seminario Musicale and les Basses Réunies, he is also a member of Al Ayre Espa-ol, the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges and the Schönbrunn Ensemble of Amsterdam.