Richard Carrillo
- Assistant Professor
- Director of Choral Activities
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Biography
Conductor, Dr. Richard Anthony Carrillo is Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Carrillo is an accomplished conductor, singer, educator, and researcher with many years of experience. Originally from Texas, Carrillo was a former member of the GRAMMY® award winning Houston Chamber Choir and served as the Associate Conducting Fellow with GRAMMY® nominated professional choir, Seraphic Fire during his doctoral studies at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music.
Dr. Carrillo is also a recipient of the Tinker Field Research Grant, where he traveled to Mexico City to aid in his mounting of Frank La Rocca's Mass of the Americas, which was performed with a festival choir of over 100 singers and over 800 people in attendance. This work included the first known Ave Maria in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs.
Most recently, Carrillo conducted the world premiere of Frank La Rocca's Requiem Mass for the Forgotten. This event garnered much media attention and was covered in both national press (with leading stories published by the Catholic News Agency and National Catholic Register) as well as international media, including countries such as Croatia and Australia. This was also broadcasted on EWTN, which is not only the largest Catholic television network in America, but reportedly "the world's largest religious media network", reaching 425 million people in 160 countries, with 11 networks.
Prior to his graduate education, Carrillo spent the majority of his nearly 10 years of teaching middle and high school, at Providence Academy in Plymouth, MN, where his Chamber Choir was invited to perform for the 2016 Minnesota Music Educators Association Convention and the 2018 Midwest ACDA Regional Convention.
Carrillo is also an avid church musician having sung professional at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, TX, the National Shrine and Cathedral of the Apostle Paul in St. Paul, MN, the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis, MN, the Church of the Epiphany in Miami, FL, and most recently served as the Director of Choirs at Miami's St. John Neumann Catholic Church.
Carrillo holds degrees from the University of Miami's Frost School of Music (DMA in Choral Conducting), Missouri State University (MM in Choral Conducting) and the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston (BM in Music Education).
Additional Information
Biography
Conductor, Dr. Richard Anthony Carrillo is Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Carrillo is an accomplished conductor, singer, educator, and researcher with many years of experience. Originally from Texas, Carrillo was a former member of the GRAMMY® award winning Houston Chamber Choir and served as the Associate Conducting Fellow with GRAMMY® nominated professional choir, Seraphic Fire during his doctoral studies at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music.
Dr. Carrillo is also a recipient of the Tinker Field Research Grant, where he traveled to Mexico City to aid in his mounting of Frank La Rocca's Mass of the Americas, which was performed with a festival choir of over 100 singers and over 800 people in attendance. This work included the first known Ave Maria in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs.
Most recently, Carrillo conducted the world premiere of Frank La Rocca's Requiem Mass for the Forgotten. This event garnered much media attention and was covered in both national press (with leading stories published by the Catholic News Agency and National Catholic Register) as well as international media, including countries such as Croatia and Australia. This was also broadcasted on EWTN, which is not only the largest Catholic television network in America, but reportedly "the world's largest religious media network", reaching 425 million people in 160 countries, with 11 networks.
Prior to his graduate education, Carrillo spent the majority of his nearly 10 years of teaching middle and high school, at Providence Academy in Plymouth, MN, where his Chamber Choir was invited to perform for the 2016 Minnesota Music Educators Association Convention and the 2018 Midwest ACDA Regional Convention.
Carrillo is also an avid church musician having sung professional at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, TX, the National Shrine and Cathedral of the Apostle Paul in St. Paul, MN, the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis, MN, the Church of the Epiphany in Miami, FL, and most recently served as the Director of Choirs at Miami's St. John Neumann Catholic Church.
Carrillo holds degrees from the University of Miami's Frost School of Music (DMA in Choral Conducting), Missouri State University (MM in Choral Conducting) and the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston (BM in Music Education).