Education
He studied in Berlin under Franz Schreker.
He studied in Berlin under Franz Schreker.
Rich played the piano from the age of 5. He conducted at venues in Bologna in Italy, and Grant Park, in Illinois as well as the Metropolitan Opera. From 1970 to 1986 he headed the Philharmonic Symphony of Westchester.
Rich was colleagues and friends with several notable conductors and musicians.
Rich is known particularly as the first conductor of the Fourth Piano Concerto by Sergei Prokofiev, together with one-handed pianist Siegfried Rapporteur (Berlin, 1956). He often conducted The Rite of Spring.
Besides being a symphonic conductor Rich was also a vocal coach for singers such as Martina Arroyo. Rich claimed that he was born left-handed but was forced him to learn to be right-handed by teachers and family.
Rich died in 2000, aged 95.