Richie Beirach
American jazz pianist and composer
Richard Alan Beirach (May 23, 1947 – January 26, 2026) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He made hundreds of recordings, in the 1970s as an early artist of ECM playing albums including Eon, Leaving, and Hubris, in a duo with saxophone player David Liebman including Forgotten Fantasies, and in many other formations. He taught jazz piano at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 2001 to 2014.
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Works
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- Alchemy
- Arcade
- Broken Wing
- Circle, Chain, Mirror
- D.L.
- Elm
- Flashback
- Future Memory
- Gargoyles
- Hubris
- Inborn
- Invisible Corridor - Sunday Song - Monday
- Johnny B
- Koan
- Leaving
- Madagascar
- Melody Eternal
- Mitsuku
- Neptune
- Nightlake
- Osiris
- Paradox
- Passacalia
- Pendulum
- Rectilinear
- Riddles
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Snow Leopard
- Stray
- Sunday Song
- Takemitsu Part 1
- Takemitsu Part 2
- Takemitsu Part 3
- The Elm
- The Leaves Are Changing (For Jack Kerouac)
- The Origin of a Species / Minority-Seniority-Sonority / The Bill Has Been Paid (medley)
- The Pearl
- Unequalibrium
- Veils
- What Are the Rules
- Zal