Kelly Joe Richardson

Composer and Violinist

Kelly Joe Richardson is a composer and violinist. His first film at the University of Southern California was declared the best musical score in the school's history by the USC Film Department. His music has been recorded at Universal, MGM and 20th Century Fox Studios as well as the Steven Spielberg Scoring Stage. His music has been performed at the OK Mozart Festival, Carnegie Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow by the Moscow State Philharmonic and the Great Hall Named After Shostakovich by the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has written music for the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., the New York Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Juilliard teacher and former New York Philharmonic principal violist Paul Neubauer. His newest composition is a work for solo viola and orchestra, "Seven Tales of Poe" dedicated to Paul Neubauer. His “Battle of Shiloh” was performed last October by the Elbland Philharmonic in Germany.