Paul Richards

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Paul Richards is an associate professor of composition at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1999. He previously taught at Baylor University and earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition at the University of Texas at Austin, and Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Theory and Composition at the University of Arizona.

Commissions have come from organizations including the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Florida State Music Teachers’ Association and Music Teacher’s National Association, Duo 46, Strung Out Trio, Sonoran Consort, Meet the Composer-Arizona, Arizona Repertory Singers, Arizona Commission on the Arts and Catalina Chamber Orchestra. Numerous university wind programs have commissioned Mr. Richards’ work, including those of Baylor, Florida, Illinois – Champaign/Urbana, Michigan, Nevada – Las Vegas, North Carolina – Greensboro, Northern Iowa, Syracuse and Truman State.

Richards was winner of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s Fresh Ink 2002 Florida Composers’ Competition, the International Section of the 2000 New Music for Sligo/IMRO Composition Award and the 2001 Truman State University/M.A.C.R.O. Composition Competition. Other honors and awards include Second Prize in the International Horn Society Composition Competition in 2001, First Place in the 1999 Voices of Change Composers Competition, two First Place prizes in the Guild of Temple Musicians Young Composers Award (1994-95, 1995-96) and several ASCAP Standard Awards.

Internationally, Mr. Richards served as composer-in-residence at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus in 2002 and his music has been performed in many countries throughout five continents. In addition to performances at universities and festivals around the country, his works have been performed at national conferences of the College Band Director’s National Association, the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States and the Society of Composers, Inc., where he has served as Region IV co-chair (2001-2003) and is currently National Student Chapter representative.

Music by Paul Richards is recorded on the Capstone, Mark and Summit labels, and is published by Southern Music, the International Horn Society Press, and Mnemes - Alfieri e Ranieri Publications.

Paul Richards
Associate Professor of Composition
The University of Florida
Box 117900
Gainesville, FL 32611-7900

(352) 392-0223x233
prich@ufl.edu