About Us

Richard Percival

B.Mus, A.D.J.S., L.T.C.L.

Richard was born in Nelson, New Zealand in 1953. He attended Canterbury University and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and studied further in the U.S. with Victor Morosco (clarinet and woodwinds) and Abbe Fraser (counterpoint/composition).

Over the last 30 years Richard has worked as a professional woodwind doubler (saxophones, clarinets, bass clarinet and flutes) in a wide range of musical situations ranging from orchestras, recording studios, television, theatre and bands in a variety of musical styles including classical ensembles through jazz, Afro Cuban to rock and roll. He has worked and toured with such artists as Howard Keel, Barbara Cook, Natalie Cole, Grace Knight, Sarah Brightman, Michael Crawford, Olivia Newton-John, Cleo Laine and many others. He has had the pleasure of working in bands led by Maria Schneider and Bob Florence. He has worked extensively in the theatre playing over forty “ broadway” shows including Cats, Nine, Chess, West Side Story, Chicago, Ain't Misbehavin', Gertrude Stein and Companion, Joseph, Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street, A Little Night Music, Hot Shoe Shuffle, Piaf, Sweet Charity, The Boy from Oz, Singin' In the Rain and far too many others.

Richard has been a teacher, clinician and lecturer in music for more than thirty years and hopes to be so for another thirty or so.

He has also worked widely as a composer and arranger. He is a member of the A.M.C. and A.P.R.A. and has music published world wide.

He has won a number of composition prizes - most recently First Prize in the International Marimba Composition Competition Brussels.

He continues to write and arrange for ensembles as diverse as chamber orchestras, big bands, latin ensembles and small groups. He specialises in music for wind instruments.

Email:richard@teacherontap.com

Peter Dorich

B.C.A.,Dip Ed,L.T.C.L.

Peter was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969. After completing High School in 1986 he went on to attain a Bachelor of Creative Arts from The University of Wollongong, while also gaining his Licentiate of Trinity College, London, on the Alto Saxophone, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Education at Sydney University. He then travelled to New York to study with the world renowned Saxophonist and teacher, Victor Morosco. Peter is an Accredited Teacher of Saxophone with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and a Certified Secondary School Music teacher.

For the past 20 years Peter has worked as a Secondary School Teacher at Shore Grammar School in North Sydney. As well as his classroom teaching and Saxophone tutoring at the school, Peter is the Bandmaster and runs an extensive Band Program. Shore’s bands have won several major competitions and awards, and stay consistently competitive year after year. In 2003 Peter was the recipient of ‘The Beaufighter Award’ for his services as a Band Director.

As a Saxophone and general woodwind player, Peter has performed on several commercial recordings and has played in many musical productions. He has also been musical director or assistant musical director in over a dozen shows.

Peter is also a freelance arranger and copyist. In addition to the books in the current ‘Teacher on Tap’ series, Peter has also written many other commercially available songbooks and various other books and teaching resources.