Richard Greene
is the guest artist bass in Clockwork.
When he is available, Richard is lending his talents to Clockwork in their “mostly” a cappella shows!
Richard “Bob” Greene is an award-winning composer, arranger, singer, writer, engineer/producer
and educator. As the co-founder and creator of the nu-wave a cappella super group
The Bobs, Greene “fractured and reconstructed the rules For vocal music,” and is
one of the foremost pioneers of contemporary a cappella.
Richard was nominated for a Grammy for his and Gunnar Madsen's a cappella arrangement
of the Beatles "Helter Skelter". His Bobs songs and arrangements are considered
standards, sung by hundreds of groups around the world. He is the recipient of multiple
songwriters’ awards from ASCAP and the CARAs (the contemporary a cappella recording
awards.) As a composer and librettist, Greene has received commissions from Lincoln
Center, The Los Angeles Theater Center, the Minnesota Opera, the Goethe Institute,
Oberlin Dance Collective, ISO Dance Theater, National Public Radio and many others.
He has written music for the feature films "Breaking the Rules" "For Better or Worse"
and "Man in the Moon" (the Andy Kaufman bio-pic) He was a vocal arranger for the
1995 Emmy Awards starring Jason Alexander. His compositions have appeared on network
television, PBS, comedy central and HBO. He has been a regular musical commentator
for NPR’s “Morning Edition” His work with ISO and the Bobs is in the permanent collection
of the Smithsonian Institution.
Richard has produced CDs for many other vocal and instrumental groups including
Clockwork's "Tesseract", Throat Culture, Toxic Audio and two for Da Vinci's Notebook.
Richard was the founder of the Recording Arts Program at Los Medanos College in
Pittsburg and has taught or conducted workshops at the prestigious Omega Institute,
Jazz Camp West, the Salt Lake A Cappella Workshop, and Harvard University, among
others. He is the producer/director for a series of instructional videos for the
A Cappella Foundation.