William Richards

Among many recording projects as a session musician, arranger, music director, producer and executive producer, Dr. Richards contributed compositions to and recorded with the Celsius Quartet for their double CD, Moving Pictures (2013). His film scores include the following: Not A One Way Street and The Suburbanight (No Problem Productions, 2017-18; award winning, nominated and/or featured at film festivals: Edmonton, Calgary, Moscow, Los Angeles, Toronto, New Delhi, Berlin, etc.) In Memoriam Viktor Ullmann (2018, Michael B. MacDonald Films) self-produced audio/visual projects including Last Train to Planet X (2025) and Synau’r sêr (featured, BEAMS Together Apart V, streamed from Chateau La Napoule, France, 2024). Many of these works can be found on iTunes and VIMEO. Dr. Richards continues to write songs and jazz works and compose and produce electronica, focusing on transformation, sound design, spectralism and sample-based synthesis. | As a pianist and composer, Dr. Richards is known for his unique fusions of traditional and contemporary idioms and styles. His compositional oeuvre includes film scores, electronica and works for jazz groups and chamber ensembles. He is also an arranger and has provided arrangements for CBC and Radio Canada. Gigging since 1975, he has performed and recorded at clubs, festivals and other venues in western Canada and Ontario as a soloist, ensemble musician and leader including Edmonton’s Yardbird Suite, Saskatoon’s The Bassment, Calgary’s Beat Niq and Vancouver’s The Cellar, Jazz City Festival, the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, Cantando Festival, The Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, Forest City Jazz Festival and The Improvised Network (TIN) Festival. He and his groups have been featured on CBC Radio, Radio Canada, CanWest-Global Television and commercial and campus radio stations throughout Canada.

William Richards is Associate Dean | Associate Professor at MacEwan University. Their stated interests include Among many recording projects as a session musician, arranger, music director, producer and executive producer, Dr. Richards contributed compositions to and recorded with the Celsius Quartet for their double CD, Moving Pictures (2013). His film scores include the following: Not A One Way Street and The Suburbanight (No Problem Productions, 2017-18; award winning, nominated and/or featured at film festivals: Edmonton, Calgary, Moscow, Los Angeles, Toronto, New Delhi, Berlin, etc.) In Memoriam Viktor Ullmann (2018, Michael B. MacDonald Films) self-produced audio/visual projects including Last Train to Planet X (2025) and Synau’r sêr (featured, BEAMS Together Apart V, streamed from Chateau La N. This summary considered all 2 collected sources.