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BIOGRAPHY
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Ryan Richko is a 'modern' film composer known for his edgy, dramatic, and moving sound. Ryan likes to score movies that need a lot of music and part of his style is developing strong melodies to make the score memorable. He combines instruments like electric guitars (his main instrument), traditional string and horn orchestras, ethnic instruments, pianos, and digital sounds. He is most noted for scoring Drama, Action, and Romantic films. His scores have appeared in feature length films, short films, webseries, and have been premiered at various film festivals. 

Richko’s musical training began when he was 6 years old, taking cello and piano lessons at the Suzuki Academy of Music in a suburb of Chicago. As his passion for music kept growing, he found himself taking guitar and music theory courses in high school. He then enrolled at Columbia College Chicago as a music major for guitar performance, where he took theory, composition, sight-singing, ear-training, keyboard, and jazz/fusion guitar courses. This allowed him to fully expand his musicality and creative skills. 

In Chicago Richko had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some national/local acts at top venues like House Of Blues, The Metro, and The Cubby Bear. Richko was considered a top notch session guitarist in Chicago starting in 2005 after winning "Best Guitarist," and has recorded and toured with many bands of all genres. 

Richko relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles to pursue his passion in film music and has been addicted ever since. Currently Ryan composes full time, teaches part-time music/yoga classes, is writing an educational guitar book series, and is writing an instrumental guitar solo album.