Biographical Information

Leningrad 1974

• group ZA with Leonid Tikhomirov, Nikolai Zarubin, Slava Evteev; group Akvarium with Boris Grebenshchikov, Andrei Romanov, Anatoly Gunitsky

New York 1975-79

• orchestra in Albertus Magnus staging of musical “Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris”

• LaMama Theater orchestra in musical “Brothers”

• sessions with Jeremy Steig, Ransom Wilson, Michael Dadap, Constantin Fasolt, Edith Eisler, Joe Ferguson, David Lusterman; cabaret performances with Jon Golden group

• music with Robert Romano for Michael Sporn Animation’s “Montgomery The Strawberry Moose”

Austin 1979-99

• sessions with Frank LaMonica, Kevin Taylor, Richard Cole (guitarists); Megan Meisenbach (flutist); Whit Dudley (harpist), Mark Carpenter, Robert DeSimone, Marlee Dietz, Jim Holmes, Vernon Moeller, Wanda Reynolds, Viki Schmidt, David Utterback, Robert Warren (pianists), Tapestry (chorus), Jim Chamberlain, Jenny Lou Pena (clarinetists), John Robinson (oboist), Austin Baroque Soloists, Helix Ensemble (chamber groups), Summer L. Johnson (percussion)

• Kerrville folk festival, Butch Hancock ‘s Lubbock Or Leave It, La Zona Rosa with Leonid Tikhomirov

• appearances on Eklektikos with John Aielli, KUT-FM in 1991 and 1999

• jazz sessions with Pam Hart (vocalist), Tommy X Hancock and the Supernatural Family Band

• recorded concert with Norma Faison (soprano) and Ruth Friedberg (pianist)

• chamber duo with Norma Faison Mayer (soprano)

Monterey 1999-2025

• chamber duo with Norma Faison Mayer (soprano)

• jazz duo with Bill Minor (pianist, poet)

• jazz duo with Charles DeWeese (guitarist)

• theatrical presentations with Taelen Thomas (actor, poet)

• rock group (Extra Curriculum)

• sessions with Tom Harrilchak (guitarist), Tim Berndt (guitarist)

• Opera-Essence Performances – co-founder and co-artistic director of 501(c)(3) organization with Norma Faison Mayer

Tours

• Russia 1992, 1997

  • concerts with Norma Faison Mayer (soprano), ZA (rock group)

• Estonia 2004, 2008

  • soloist with Promenade Symphonic Orchestra, Haapsalu

  • concerts with Norma Faison Mayer (soprano)

• France 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009

  • concerts with Norma Faison Mayer (soprano)

• Germany 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

  • concerts with Norma Faison Mayer (soprano)

Publications

• Mac Weekly, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1964-66

• 20 samizdat cassette albums with Leonid Tikhomirov.  St. Petersburg, Russia, 1974-98

• Shule Aroon - Ruined Shoes,with Leonid Tikhomirov. SCS, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1995 

• Norma and Richard Mayer in Concert at the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum, 1998 (CD) 

• Norma and Richard Mayer in Concert at L'Eglise St.-Pierre, 1999 (CD) 

• ZA's Castle, with Leonid Tikhomirov. SCS, Austin, Texas, 1999 (CD)

• Here We Go Again, with various artists, 2001 (CD)

• Norma and Richard Mayer in Estonia, 2004 (DVD)

• Incarnate Word College Presents Norma Faison, Ruth Friedberg, and Richard Mayer in Concert, 2007, (CD)

• Cathedral (Norma and Richard Mayer) 2008 (CD)

• Spirituals at Wave Street Studios (Norma and Richard Mayer) 2009 (DVD)

• SPIRITUAALID Norma ja Richard Mayer (DVD)

• Many YouTube videos and Bandcamp.com albums

• Producer, arranger, recording engineer,  publisher, and flutist on many flute and voice scores and recordings by Norma and Richard Mayer

• Guest artist on numerous recordings

• Umkämpfte Erde - The Embattled Ground by Ludwig Mayer - republished in the original edition in Germany (R.G. Fischer Verlag); translated from the German and published in the US by Richard Mayer (available for the Amazon Kindle)

• Defense Language Institute - Assistant Professor of Russian, teaching team leader

• Middlebury Institute of International Studies  -  Russian Instructor

• Defense Language Institute - Project Leader and Content Developer for the GLOSS project (on-line lessons in 20+ languages); technical editor of faculty-produced Russian literary journal

• Contributor to publications of  the Augsburg, Germany synagogue and Juedisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben

• The Last Mayers in Augsburg, unpublished manuscript