Dr Richards is sponsoring the following concerts to be held in the Tairawhiti Museum in 2020.
For more information, please see the Tairawhiti Museum Concerts 2020 page.
Dr. Richards sponsored a number of fundraising concerts over the New Zealand summer.
On December 15th 2019 at the Lawson Field Theater in Gisborne three outstanding New Zealand pianists Maria Mo, Lixin Zhang and Tony Tay Tong Chen performed at three concerts:
On Sunday January 26th 2020 Baritone William King with associate artist Bruce Greenfield (piano) presented the following programme at Tiromoana:
On Sunday February 9th 2020 Sydney pianist Paul Cheung played at Tiromoana. His programme was:
Dr, Richards provides support for young New Zealand pianists to study at musical academies in Spain and Switzerland:
Valencia, Spain: July 2019 – Lixin Zhang & Tony Yan Tong Chen
Blonay, Switzerland: August 2019 – Lixin Zhang, Delvan Lin, Tony Yan Tong Chen, Lorelle McNaughton and Ashani Waidyatillake
Gisborne’s Professor Jack Richards has been named one of the 50 most influential language teaching specialists in the world — and the only Kiwi. Reporter Kim Parkinson meets the man known for his generosity in supporting the arts, at his summer home Tiromoana in Okitu.
Read the rest of the Gisborne Herald article here.
Professor Richards’ home in Gisborne has been featured in NZ Gardener Magazine
There comes a time in a well-travelled person’s life when the siren song of home becomes more insistent.
For many years, Jack Richards, a professor of linguistics, and his partner, Won Gyu Moon, divided their time between international work commitments, and their homes in Sydney and Korea. Richards’ frenetic schedule of lecturing, writing and touring made breaks in his home town of Gisborne all the more precious…
The article is available online here: Gisborne’s Garden Over the Sea: A Sanctuary for Nature and Art
Jack Richards is now offering travel support to all competitors who reach the finals in the New Zealand Chamber Music Competition, an annual competition for school chamber music groups that attracts over 500 entrants every year.
Some 40 make their way to the national finals that are held either in Wellington, Auckland or Christchurch and all will now receive a Jack Richards travel grant.
In February and March 2017 Jack Richards sponsored a series of New Zealand concerts by EDITH FISCHER – pianist and protégé of Claudio Arrau and Founder and Artistic Director of Semaine Internationale de Piano et Musique de Chambre, Blonay, Switzerland, and her husband JORGE PEPI-ALOS – pianist and composer Professor at the University of Chile, Santiago. Their visit included a piano recital for four-hands as part of the Tiromoana Summer Concert Series (held in Jack and Won Gyu Moon’s New Zealand summer residence) as well as a recital as part of the Creative New Zealand/Jack C Richards Composer in Residence Program at Victoria University, Wellington.
In the photo Jack is seen with Edith and Jorge following their Christchurch recital, and together with Christchurch pianist Tony Chen Lin, who accompanied the musicians on their New Zealand tour.
Eloise Wallace, the director of Tairāwhiti Museum, talks about the Jack C Richards Decorative Arts Gallery in a post on the museum’s blog entitled Appealing objects – decorative arts at Tairāwhiti Museum.
Taiwanese-born pianist Ting Chia Hsu 
– currently studying at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music – has won first prize in the International Piano Competition Teresa Llacuna in Valence France, held in April 2014.
His participation in the competition was sponsored by Jack Richards.