Katya Richardson
Katya Richardson is a Ukrainian-American composer and music producer based in Los Angeles. Throughout her multidisciplinary work, she crafts cinematic textures that explore the gap between stage and screen.
Richardson has written for the LA Philharmonic and premiered her compositions internationally, from Walt Disney Concert Hall to The Royal Opera House in London. In 2016, she composed an orchestral fanfare exclusively for Hollywood Bowl Opening Night. As a film and tv composer, she frequently collaborates with Academy Award-winning Breakwater Studios, and in 2022, garnered a Hollywood Music in Media Award for her score to Emmy-nominated Op-Doc, MINK!. She also composed the score for the 2024 Oscar-winning film, The Last Repair Shop, co-directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers. Her score earned her a Critic’s Choice Documentary Award nomination for Best Score and an ASCAP Composers’ Choice nomination for Documentary Score of the Year. Other recent projects include PBS special Keeping the Pinelands, a full-length ballet with British choreographer Russell Maliphant, and music arrangements for the 96th Academy Awards. Notably, she has also worked with A-list composers Danny Elfman on Dr. Strange (2022) and with Rob Simonsen on Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). Richardson is an alumna of the University of Southern California and a recipient of the prestigious Trustee Scholarship.