Thank you for visiting and exploring my website. I am a Florida-based composer with eclectic tastes and a variety of compositional interests. I have written works for nearly every genre, from solo and chamber pieces to symphonies and operas. My compositions page has descriptions, perusal scores, and sound files. You can also hear my works on my YouTube channel.
Performers and ensemble directors interested in purchasing scores and parts can order music through my catalog, and CD's can be found on my recordings page.
I am a Professor of Music and head of the composition and theory area at the University of Florida. I can be reached by email at prichards@arts.ufl.edu.
News
New CD coming soon
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
a collection of chamber works centered around a complete setting of Whitman's famous poem
Available December 12, 2025
Summer Festivals
I was a 2025 guest faculty member at the Veneto Art and Music Summit, Vienna Contemporary Composers Festival, and the Sofia Symphonic Summit
Wind Symphony Premiere
Triton’s Trumpet was premiered by The University of Florida Wind Symphony on April 13, 2025
Also available
Shifting Worlds
a stylistic collage of vocal works created in collaboration with many University of Florida colleagues and students
Available now!
Rough Translations
a category defying digital release featuring electronic versions of several of my acoustic compositions that I perform on guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion, and more
Available Now!
Forty-Four Ambitions for Soprano and Piano
Available Now!
Witch Doctor, the Wind Ensemble Music of Paul Richards
Fables, Forms, and Fears, a CD of my chamber music
My Music on YouTube
playlist of various pieces
Rough Translations
Shifting Worlds
Forty-Four Ambitions for Soprano and Piano
