Over the last 30 years Richard has worked as a professional woodwind doubler (saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet and flutes) in a wide range of musical situations ranging from orchestras, recording studios, television, theatre and bands in a variety of musical styles including classical ensembles through jazz, Afro Cuban to rock and roll. He has worked and toured with such artists as Howard Keel, Barbara Cook, Natalie Cole, Grace Knight, Sarah Brightman, Michael Crawford, Olivia Newton-John, Cleo Laine and many others. He has had the pleasure of working in bands led by Maria Schneider and Bob Florence. He has worked extensively in the theatre playing over forty shows including Cats, Nine, Chess, West Side Story, Chicago, Ain't Misbehavin', Gertrude Stein and Companion, Joseph, Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street, A Little Night Music, Hot Shoe Shuffle, Piaf, Sweet Charity, The Boy from Oz, Singin' In the Rain and far too many others.

Richard has been a teacher, clinician and lecturer in music for more than thirty years and hopes to be so for another thirty or so.

He has also worked widely as a composer and arranger. He is a member of the A.M.C. and A.P.R.A. and has music published in both Australia and the U.S. He continues to write and arrange for ensembles as diverse as chamber orchestras, big bands, latin ensembles and small groups. He specialises in music for wind instruments.