Richard Pitman's repertoire includes a broad spectrum of traditional and contemporary works for full orchestra, chamber orchestra and ensemble, opera and music theater, chorus and orchestra, and ballet and dance.

Comments from published reviews

"Cello Concerto for Ma premieres, Boston Musica Viva, Tanglewood--The performance of Appalachian Spring, led by BMV director Richard Pittman, was lovely. It mercifully lacked the thousand-and-one-strings sentimentality of some big orchestras and moved with a genuine dance impulse."
-Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

"Musica Viva serves tasty new fare--Richard Pittman always has something up his sleeve. The adventurous director of Boston Musica Viva, the city’s premier new music ensemble, presented a fascinating program last night."
-Keith Powers, Boston Herald

"Seldom-heard Pelleas rings with conviction, Concord Orchestra--Richard Pittman conducts the work with conviction and a profound affection that held it all together and carried us all along."
-Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

"The Concord Orchestra scores a triumph with the rarely seen "Pelleas and Melisande"--If the Concord Orchestra’s concert performance of Claude Debussy’s "Pelleas et Melisande" last weekend could be reduced to one word, that word would be "triumph." Under Richard Pittman’s extraordinary leadership, and strongly cast, the community based group did more that "get through" one of the most difficult pieces of early 20th-century operatic literature: it claimed it as its own."
-T.J. Medrek, Boston Herald

"Boston Musica Viva soars--The performances were at the high level we have come to depend on from conductor Richard Pittman and Musica Viva."
-Anthony Tommasini, Boston Globe

"Lunatic tunes, Boston Musica Viva--Music Director Richard Pittman led the proceedings with his customary calm clarity, eliciting thrilling performances..."
-T.J. Medrek, Bay Windows

"New England Philharmonic--Mozart’s Prague Symphony, which came after intermission was done with all its repeats (therefore grandly), and with divided violins, and with a new music specialist’s emphasis on making it all clear. By the end it had taken on a joyful fizz."
-Boston Globe

"Boston Musica Viva stretches its multiculturism theme--The performance by the expert Musica Viva instrumentalists and Richard Pittman was first class."
-Richard Dyer, Boston Globe