Christine M. Richardson

Christine Richardson is a retired music educator and she taught band, orchestra, choir and elementary music in California for 37 years. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from University of Southern California. Christine studied horn with James Decker and music composition with Lynn Blake John and Robert Barrett. She has composed concert band music, symphonic orchestra music, and quintets. Currently, Christine plays horn for both the Empire Wind Ensemble and the Redlands Community Orchestra. Christine enjoys writing programmatic music, describing some of her favorite scenic places she sees when hiking locally in California and when travelling to places like Grand Canyon, Kenya, and Norway. In her spare time, she is a volunteer music teacher at the local schools, and is also a docent for the Wildlands Conservancy. Christine’s website is: www.RichardsonComposer.com.