Brad Ritchie is an Emmy Award-winning orchestrator, composer, and arranger who maintains an active career in both the commercial and concert worlds.

In film and television, Ritchie works as an orchestrator for numerous composers. His orchestrations and arrangements have been recorded by A-list studio ensembles like the Hollywood Studio Symphony and the London Symphony Orchestra and heard in many hit films, television shows, and video games.

On the concert stage, Ritchie’s arrangements have been performed across the United States by orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Louisville Orchestra and many more. His works are also being presented internationally. 

Brad is also a highly sought-after music engraver for the stage and screen, providing music preparation services for clients in all mediums. He has done editing and engraving work as a contractor for publishers, including G. Schirmer and Subito Music.

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Ritchie earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisville and his graduate degree at the University of Southern California in its prestigious Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program. There, he worked with and learned from some of the industry’s leading composers and industry veterans. Currently Brad is an adjunct professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in their Music Scoring for Visual Media department. There he designed and teaches an 8 week course on modern film and TV orchestration workflow techniques.

Brad resides primarily in Southern Indiana with his wife and their two children. He divides his time between his studio at home and traveling across the country and abroad wherever the music takes him.