
Dr. Richards with participants, judges and prize winners in the National Classical Guitar Competition in December 2022, an event which Dr. Richards sponsors
Dr. Richards with participants, judges and prize winners in the National Classical Guitar Competition in December 2022, an event which Dr. Richards sponsors
Jack Richards will be a keynote speaker at the KOTESOL conference in Seoul in April, his first participation in an international conference since the pandemic.
Reviewers give a very positive review of Richards and Pun Teaching and Learning in English Medium Instruction
Richards and Pun’s experiences of EMI in various contexts make this book an engaging read for anyone in the field. With its broad coverage and in-depth treatment of essential topics in EMI, this volume is indispensable reading for EMI researchers, classroom teachers, EMI policymakers and administrators, as well as students on TESOL teacher training programs.
Link to full review…
Piano recitals by 4 student pianists to be held at Dr. Richards Gisborne residence in July, August, September and October 2022 featuring Tony Yan Tong Chen, Ben Kennedy, William Perry and Otis Prescott Mason.
Dr. Richards is sponsoring piano students Otis Prescott Mason and William Perry to participate in master classes at the festival de la Semaine Internationale de Piano in Blonay, Switzerland in August 2022.
A recital in Gisborne on the 3rd July 2022 by pianist Tony Chen Lin and bassoonist Long Nguyen:
WEBER Bassoon Concerto in F major, Op.75
SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op.16
ELGAR Romance for Bassoon and Piano, Op.62
TANSMAN Suite for Bassoon and Piano
Professor Richards has been invited to contribute to a new series of practical professional books for teachers of English in China. The series is being published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, the educational publishing division of Beijing University of Foreign Studies and the largest university press in China. The series editors for the books are Professor Guoxing Yu (Bristol University) and Professor Peter Gu (Victoria University, Wellington). The title and contents of Professor Richards’ book are:
Continue reading →On 23 December 2011 the Museum and I signed an agreement that the museum trust would build an extension, to be known as ‘the Richards Gallery’ to be funded by Jack Richards at a cost of some $350,000.
The agreement stated that the gallery would primarily be used for the purpose of housing and displaying objects on loan from Jack Richards’ collection, but also items from the Museum’s own collection and touring exhibitions. The agreement also specified that items from the Richards collection would be displayed in a different section of the gallery from items from the museum collection. The MOU states:
“The museum may exhibit items other than Jack Richards collection for up to four months each year in the general exhibition component of the gallery”.
Continue reading →Jack Richards’ new book on English Medium Instruction (with Jack Pun), has been published by Routledge.
Many of the items in the Jack C Richards Decorative Arts collection are now available to view on eHive.
In May Dr. Richards spoke at an event to mark the restoration of a pipe organ built by Dr. Richards’ uncle William Croft, at St Andrew’s Church, Wellington.
For a note on the organ building company founded by Jack’s grandfather, please read on:
Continue reading →Three new articles by Dr. Richards have been published recently:
Dr. Richards has also posted a lecture on Emotions in Language Teaching on Youtube.
Dr. Richards was active in support of musicians and cultural activities in 2020. Primary among these activities were:
A series of house concerts were also organized at Tiromoana in Gisborne:
Support for other cultural activities included:
In an interview with Radio New Zealand, Dr Richards spoke about how he first became involved in sponsoring the arts, and stressed the importance of supporting artists.
Dr. Richards is Editor in Chief for a new series of textbooks published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Oxford University Press (China).
One series is a 4 level integrated course, entitled Over to You, the first level of which has now been published. The second series is a 4 level listening and speaking course.
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 is patron of the Gisborne International Music Competition, an annual competition for players of orchestral instruments.
2019 was the 30th anniversary of the competition, which featured outstanding young musicians from New Zealand, Australia, the US and Singapore.
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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:
Professor Richards was the guest of honor at celebrations in October 2019 at City University in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the Department of English. Professor Richards was the first head of the department.
During his visit Professor Richards gave a public lecture and also sponsored a piano recital by Australian pianist Tony Lee and New Zealand pianist Lixin Zhang.
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