Biography
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Biography
Teresa Richert began piano lessons at age four with Beatrice Chapman. She completed her
senior-level piano and theory studies with Edward Parker, Ellen Tso and Keiko Parker earning an
ARCT Piano Performer diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music at sixteen. She began
teaching piano and theory in the early 1980s.
She graduated from the Management & Systems Science and Computer Engineering programs at
SFU. After more than a decade in the high technology industry, she left to pursue a full-time music
career. She completed her ARCT Piano Teacher diploma studying with Kim Morden and now
teaches piano, theory and composition at her home studio in Maple Ridge and at Place des Arts in
Coquitlam. She is currently studying piano with Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa.
Teresa began her studies in advanced theory and composition in 2002 completing the ARCT
Diploma in Composition and Theory studying with Stephen Brown at the Victoria Conservatory of
Music in 2008. Her graduating projects (3 compositions & a research paper) were passed with
distinction. She has written over 80 piano pieces plus works for other solo instruments, voice,
chamber ensemble and orchestra. Her research paper, In Search of Composition Resources for
Young People, was published in the Winter 2009 edition of The Canadian Music Teacher.
A member of the BC Registered Music Teachers' Association since 1988, she is a past president of
the Coquitlam - Maple Ridge Branch and a founding coordinator of the branch's annual North
Fraser Music Festival (2001 - 2008). She is also a member of the Association of Canadian
Women Composers, Vancouver Pro Musica, SOCAN and the Canadian New Music Network. She
recently joined the composers' collective, Red Leaf Pianoworks.
Teresa Richert began piano lessons at age four with Beatrice Chapman. She completed her
senior-level piano and theory studies with Edward Parker, Ellen Tso and Keiko Parker earning an
ARCT Piano Performer diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music at sixteen. She began
teaching piano and theory in the early 1980s.
She graduated from the Management & Systems Science and Computer Engineering programs at
SFU. After more than a decade in the high technology industry, she left to pursue a full-time music
career. She completed her ARCT Piano Teacher diploma studying with Kim Morden and now
teaches piano, theory and composition at her home studio in Maple Ridge and at Place des Arts in
Coquitlam. She is currently studying piano with Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa.
Teresa began her studies in advanced theory and composition in 2002 completing the ARCT
Diploma in Composition and Theory studying with Stephen Brown at the Victoria Conservatory of
Music in 2008. Her graduating projects (3 compositions & a research paper) were passed with
distinction. She has written over 80 piano pieces plus works for other solo instruments, voice,
chamber ensemble and orchestra. Her research paper, In Search of Composition Resources for
Young People, was published in the Winter 2009 edition of The Canadian Music Teacher.
A member of the BC Registered Music Teachers' Association since 1988, she is a past president of
the Coquitlam - Maple Ridge Branch and a founding coordinator of the branch's annual North
Fraser Music Festival (2001 - 2008). She is also a member of the Association of Canadian
Women Composers, Vancouver Pro Musica, SOCAN and the Canadian New Music Network. She
recently joined the composers' collective, Red Leaf Pianoworks.