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Richard Blackford, award-winning composer and conductor is known equally for his work in film and as a composer of concert and stage works. Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music he currently has over 200 film and television credits to his name.

2010 sees performances of his acclaimed Clarinet Quintet at both the  Cheltenham Festival and Luhacovice Festival in the Czech Republic, and  the premiere of his Te Deum in Westminster Abbey on November 19th. His  cantata Mirror Of Perfection receives performances in Cologne and  Dorking, bringing the total number of performances to over eighty.  2010 also sees the commission of a major new 50 minute work for choir,  soloists and orchestra by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus for its  Centenary. Entitled Not In Our Time it will be premiered on September  11th. 2011 in Cheltenham Town Hall under the auspices of the  Cheltenham Festival. Richard continues his collaboration with the Brno  Philharmonic and will conduct a concert of English and American music  there in May 2011.

A deeply literate and assured composer - The Times

Here is a composer with a real talent for melodic writing at once spontaneous and captivating - Records and Recording