Sound Designer
Richard worked for several years in English regional theatres before moving to London’s West End with Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers in 1983. Subsequently he mixed many shows before opening the original production of The Phantom of the Opera in 1986 and then became the associate sound designer in Vienna and subsequent productions around the world. Several other productions as associate sound designer include Starlight Express in Japan and Australia, and eight productions of Queen’s We Will Rock You. Richard's sound designs include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in London and Stuttgart and The Producers in Copenhagen.
Richard still enjoys engineering
concerts and special events such as the Millennium Dome
Opening Ceremony, Concert for
Diana at Wembley
Stadium, Falklands
25th
Anniversary
Celebration, the
BBC’s Last Night of the
Proms in the Park, St Pancras Eurostar
Opening, the
Classical
Brits Awards and
the Queen’s Jubilee
Concerts at
Buckingham Palace.
Major musical events include Raymond
Gubbay’s annual opera season in London’s Royal Albert
Hall as well as
concerts at Leeds Castle, Liverpool Pier Head and Henley Festival.
Other projects include the Nelson Mandela
‘46664’ Concert in Cape Town, The MTV Tsunami
Benefit Concert in
Bangkok, a tour of the Far East with Croatian pianist
‘Maxim’,
UK tours of Jeff Wayne’s The War of the
Worlds, the
DIFC
Show in
Dubai, Alexandria
Library’s 5th
Birthday
celebrations and concerts by Vanessa
Mae.
His work outside the world of theatre and classical music also
includes sound design for commercial presentations.