Richard Blackford was born in London in 1954. After studying at the Royal College of Music he went to Italy for a number of years to work as assistant to the composer Hans Werner Henze.
After studying composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music, Richard worked in Italy as assistant to composer Hans Werner Henze. He returned to the UK in 1977 to set up the music theatre department of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and has been a guest lecturer at the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music.
His music has been performed and broadcast all over the world and has been featured in the Adelaide, Cork, Montepulciano and Berlin Festivals. It has been recorded on Sony Classical, Decca, Argo, Warner Classics, EMI, Quartz and Signum Classics. He is the recipient of several awards including first prize at the Houston Film Festival, the Royal Television Society Award, the Mendelssohn Scholarship and the Tagore Gold Medal.
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Film and TV
Inga Lindstrom (2008)
Rebecca Ryman (2008)
Rosamunde Pilcher (2008)
Starting Over (2007)
The Offical Film Of The 2006 Fifa World Cup (2006)
The Shell Seekers (2006)
Summer Solstice (2005)
Barbara Wood - Das Haus Der Harmonie (2005)
Fingersmith (2005)
Song For Raggy Boy (2003)
Crossings (2002)
Du Bist Mein Kind (2002)
Paradiesvogel (2000)
Arabische Prinz (2000)
and many more including Millennium: A Thousand Years Of History (1999) and A Bit Of Lippy (1992).
Recordings
Voices In Exile (2005)
Mirror Of Perfection
String Quartet (1980)
Portrait Of Hans Sachs (1989)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:Opera In Six Sections (1982)
Music For Carlow: Fantasia ON Two Airs (1989)
Posthumus Leonatus: For Oboe Solo
Three Cornish Pieces: For Piano
Sonata For Piano (1975)
From The Song Of Songs (1985)
External Websites
www.blackford.co.uk/
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