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Richard
Pick was born in 1915 in St. Paul Minnesota. His birth name was Richard Burns,
and his parents were of Scottish ancestry. He later adopted the family name of
his foster parents, the Picks. At the age of five, he began his musical
education, learning to play both the violin and the piano, under the tutelage of
his foster parents, who were both professional musicians. Throughout his early
school years in Minnesota, he performed in numerous musical concerts with them.
He later moved to Illinois, where he continued to grow musically by performing,
singing, conducting, composing, arranging, orchestrating, accompanying and
lecturing. It was then that the classic guitar caught his attention. As he
investigated its possibilities as a vehicle of expression, his interest in the
instrument rapidly grew. His rich and thorough education in music, and
especially his love of nature, are reflected in his compositions. 
In
1952, Richard Pick published his First Lessons for the Classic Guitar, a
book that was noted as the first American guitar method since 1924. The
Richard Pick School of Guitar, from which these original solo are
taken, was originally published by Editions Orphée in 1992. A new version of
this important School of Guitar is now in preparation and will become
available in 2009.
In years past, Richard Pick has appeared on radio and television as a guest artist with Dave Garroway, Robert Trendier, Henry Weber, the WGN Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra. He worked with the Encyclopedia Britannica in producing an award winning film, entitled People Along the Mississippi, in which he played the background music. In playing the premier performance of Jacques Ibert’s Le Chevalier Errand, he was the first guitarist to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has given many recitals, other performances, and lectures in many cities of the United States: principally in Chicago, Cincinnati, Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco, and Aspen. Richard Pick died at the end of November, 2001.
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