Richard Kapp (October 9, 1936 – June 4, 2006) was an American conductor. Richard Kapp was born in Chicago, Illinois, he was a child piano prodigy. However, he studied German political history at Johns Hopkins University and received his BA in 1957. He then went abroad on a Fulbright fellowship and studied conducting, composition, and piano at the Stuttgart Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Germany. The Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York performed and recorded until 2004 when concerts were suspended when Kapp became ill. Kapp died at his home in Danbury, Connecticut, at the age of 69 from cancer.