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.
