My wife Josette, a pianist and piano
teacher, and I enjoy the same things in our travels:
arts, architecture, history,
classical music and opera, meeting people.
In 2005, Martin's
classical music performances included, in January, performing solo recitals at Chapman University and for the Foothill Philharmonic Society, in February, winning second place in the Cleveland Institute of Music Darius Milhaud Society competition, in April, performing at Pianofest in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, performing at the American Liszt Society Festival at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, performing at the
Arts Orange County Awards at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, California, in June, performing a solo recital as part of the Keyboard Guest Artist series at the Cal State University, Long Beach, in July and August, attending Pianofest and performing in Pianofest concerts around the Hamptons in Long Island, New York, in October, performing at the CIM Ernst Bloch Society and performing for the Youngstown Music
Teachers» Association of Ohio, and in November, performing at the Country Club in Pepper Pike, Ohio.
Richier was first trained as a
classical sculptor at the École Supérieure des Beaux -
Arts de Montpellier and then became a student of Antoine Bourdelle (a student of Rodin and
teacher to Alberto Giacometti) in Paris.