Educational Outreach

With the Worcester Public Schools and Mechanics Hall Association, Rich helped create the annual "Conversations in Jazz: Brown Bags for Kids" for which he was author, Narrator and Music Director. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
He remains a popular festival adjudicator, clinician and music lecturer. He has presented at the annual MMEA (Massachusetts Music Educators Association) All State Conference on jazz guitar, big band directing techniques and jazz improvisation, the New England Jazz Alliance (NEJA) Annual Conference on the collection and preservation of historical data, the IAJE Annual International Conference in NYC for the African American Caucus. He is a frequent adjudicator for the Rhode Island Music Educators Association (RIMEA) and was invited to be the All State Jazz Ensemble Conductor for RIMEA.
With his WPI students, he has hosted the Jazz Combo/ Jazz Choir Festival of the International Association for Jazz Education for more than 10 years.