Richard took up the Horn in his home town of Swansea at the age of 14. He studied at Cardiff University with Jim Beck and Trinity College London with Stephen Stirling and Roger Montgomery where he won the Gladys Puttock, Phillip Jones and Grace Wylie prizes. Since then Richard has enjoyed a varied career as a freelance horn player and teacher. On the modern horn he has played with Orchestras such as the London Mozart Players, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Viva, the English Sinfonia and English Touring Opera. On the natural and baroque horns Richard has recorded for Deutsche Gramaphone with the Gabrieli Consort and Players, BIS for Haydn Sinfonietta Wien and for the BBC in their Discovering Music series of programmes.
As a soloist with the Whitehall Symphony Orchestra, Richard has previously performed the Gliere Concerto. Other recent solo performances include Strauss's 1st Concerto, 1st Horn in Schumann's Konzertstuck and a performance of Britten's Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings at Burleigh house.