Specialty: Story Magic & Music
2024 Featured Summit & Festival Story Artist
Although storyteller Richard Hatch holds two graduate degrees in physics from Yale, he finds it easier apparently to violate the laws of nature than to discover them. His interactive deceptions have been featured at museums, libraries, theaters and schools nationwide and at such exotic venues as the Magic Castle in Hollywood and Eddie Murphy’s New Year’s Eve Party. With his wife, violinist Rosemary Hatch, he opened the Hatch Academy of Magic and Music in Logan, Utah in January 2011 where they teach and offer ensemble performances of theatrical magic and classical music (violin and piano). Their son Jonathan Hatch, a visual artist based in Salt Lake City, accompanies their ensemble performances on piano.
As a storyteller, Richard has been a teller at the Weber State Storytelling Festival, Little Bloomsbury Storytelling Festival, Cache Storytelling Festival, and Story Crossroads. His original story, Taro-san the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree, was published in 2012 in an illustrated, bilingual (English and Japanese) edition in 2012 and an annotated edition in 2013.
His historical research on early magic in Utah (“Artemus Ward and the Basiliconthaumaturgist”) and the fate of German Jewish magicians during the Third Reich (Günther Dammann and The Lives of the Jewish Conjurers”) has recently been published in the peer reviewed journal Gibeciere.
Rosemary Kimura Hatch holds music performances degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Master of Music from the Yale School of Music. In addition to her private teaching of violin and viola, she is actively coaches chamber music as director of the Chamber Music Society of Logan’s Chamber Music Program.
Jonathan Hatch is a visual artist and pianist based in Salt Lake City, Utah.