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composer Richard Altenbach

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Welcome to Award-Winning Composer Richard Altenbach’s website.

As a composer for the concert stage, my passion is to create vivid, expressive music that stirs the heart of listeners and performers alike. I especially enjoy writing for chamber ensembles… recordings available on YouTube & SoundCloud. I invite commissions from musical artists.

I also create music for Film, TV, Video Games and more. With over 28 years of Hollywood experience, I offer cinematic orchestral music, rich string arrangements, intimate textures, and atmospheric soundscapes – delivered on time and on budget.

Contact me to bring voice to your artistic venture!

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6th VIENNA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION

Richard’s piece, Poetic Reflections, for Piano, Violin & Cello placed as "shortlist FINALIST" in the 6th Vienna International Music Competition 2025 in the Composition Category.

This from the Judges' Panel:

... after "careful consideration and evaluation by our esteemed artistic commission ... It is with genuine admiration that we acknowledge your exceptional talent, remarkable musicality, and accomplished technique ... Despite not being selected as a winner, please know that your application stood out, and you are among the musicians whom the jury particularly appreciated. As a result, you were placed on the shortlist of finalists ..."

Click HERE to see more 2025 International Prize-Winning results for Poetic Reflections, including Absolute First Prize!

REVIEW :

"... this piece is awesome! Demented, horrific, beautiful, virtuosic, and so much more. It’s pretty incredible, Richard, and so much fricken music. And an excellent use of all three instruments! ..."

- composer, Rylan B.

YouTube See Anna Leyerer‘s performance of “the Jester’s Waltz – Vienna!

XVII GOLDEN KEY PIANO COMPOSITION COMPETITION

Richard’s Piano piece, The Jester’s Waltz, was awarded the Diploma in the Second Degree in National Professional Category in the Golden Key International Piano Composition Competition.

The composition (The Jester’s Waltz) has been recommended for the program of the World Composers Recital at the Golden Key Music Festival in Vienna, on July 31, 2024, where the Diploma and Winner's Medal will be awarded to Richard on the stage of Vienna’s historic Ehrbar Hall during the Award Ceremony. A professional pianist has been chosen to perform and video/audio record the piece at the concert!

PAINT ME IN THE OPERA HOUSE - Richard scores a stylish, dark and atmospheric horror short by Leaf Lieber, has received many accolades and has screened at the venerable Aero Theatre in Santa Monica!

Richard’s Piano work, The Jester’s Waltz, received Honorable Mention (only American awarded!) in the Opus Dissonus Competition. World-renowned pianist, Artur Cimirro, will be recording the work and performing it on recital programs in order to disseminate the piece internationally!

In 2014, Bidwell's Path was designated a Finalist / Instrumental Music Category in the UK Songwriting Contest. More recently, Richard's song Warrior's Hymn was designated a Finalist. 4 of his other songs are considered Semi-Finalists: Stefan's Song, Chicxulub: Dinosaur Musings on the Meaning of Life, Losing Love & Faerie's Embrace.