In 1977
Richard Band left the film business and took an extended holiday
in Europe to get back to his roots. He soon realized that
he could perhaps marry his love for films and music by creating
music for film. A few month's later Richard and a friend,
Joel Goldsmith, son of famed film composer Jerry Goldsmith,
approached Irwin Yablans at Compass International Distributors
(HALLOWEEN) and asked for the opportunity to score a film.
After much discussion they were given $1000.00 to create a
score for the 1978 film LASERBLAST which heralded his and
Joel’s debut as film composers.
Richard has since gone on to score over 70 films and many
television productions including multiple episodes of STARGATE
SG-1, WALKER: TEXAS RANGER and Disney's SING ME A STORY. Amongst
various Awards over the years, In 1986 his music score for
FROM BEYOND won best Original Soundtrack at the Catalonian
International Film Festival in Sitges Spain beating out such
heavyweights scores from Aliens and Blue Velvet Richard has
also scored many documentaries including the award-winning
series’ MOST DECORATED, BRUTE FORCE and WEAPONS OF WAR
as well as having contributed much music to other shows such
as THE REAL WEST, CIVIL WAR JOURNALS and various BIOGRAPHIES.
Amongst various television specials for which Band has composed
music was the acclaimed Final tribute to NBC's BILL COSBY
SHOW.
Richard’s experience over the years has brought him
to score over 20 films internationally with such renown orchestras
as THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC, THE LONDON SYMPHONY and THE ROME
PHILHARMONIC. He has also had music recorded in Prague, Romania
and Munich. In the last several years Richard has enjoyed
scoring a variety of family and comedy films for Viacom and
Paramount Pictures as well as hundreds of animated vignettes
for the WB kid's network all of which were scored with orchestra.
He also developed the campaign music for many of the WB’s
primetime shows such as BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, GILMORE
GIRLS, ROSWELL, and SMALLVILLE. His musical talents can also
be heard on miscellaneous amusement park rides including ALIENS
- THE RIDE and several Vegas venues. Richard has also scored
many interactive games for companies like InterPlay some of
which include STAR TREK, WATERWORLD, CASPER, CLAYFIGHTER and
INVICTUS: THE SHADOW OF OLYMPUS.
Richard presently continues to work on many different projects
including developing a specialized music library for films
and television under the name of GRATIS MUSIC. The library
will formally be launched in mid 2006 and in addition to his
own music, will include music from at least 20 other well
know film & TV composers.
To contact Richard Band, email him at rband@socal.rr.com
