Richard Craig graduated with honors from RSAMD (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) while studying with Sheena Gordon and later with Richard Blake and continued his studies at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, France, with Mario Caroli. Richard has performed with groups such as ELISION, Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, The Estonian Radio Choir and Das Experimentalstudio ensemble, which has taken him to international festivals such as Maerzmusik Berlin, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, the Venice Biennale, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Festival D’Automne in Paris and the Lincoln Center Festival New York. As a soloist, Richard has given recitals throughout the world performing new works and presenting his collaborations, alongside musicians such as Rohan de Saram and Roberto Fabricciani. At the centre of Richard’s work in contemporary music is the development of new repertoire for the flute, and he is involved in commissions with both established composers and with the younger generation. As a chamber musician, Richard has performed with Distractfold Ensemble, the winners of the 2014 Kranisteiner prize, and is a member of the Spanish ensemble SMASH.
As a lecturer he has given masterclasses and seminars in University Maryland Baltimore, Huddersfield University, St Andrews University, Aberdeen University, the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, Lawrence University Wisconsin, and was appointed as Visiting Fellow in Performance at Aberdeen University 2009-11. From 2012-2014 he was a visiting lecturer on the Post-Graduate performance course at Huddersfield University, and further to this he was appointed as Honorary Research Fellow at the same University. In October 2015 he became of Head of Performance at Bangor University, Wales.
Richard has recorded for the BBC, WDR Cologne, YLE Finland, Radio France, Radio Nacional de España, Swedish Radio, ARTE, Icelandic RUV, Wergo and Another Timbre. His solo debut disc INWARD was released on the Métier label in 2011 to critical acclaim. INWARD has since been nominated as the only classical music disc for the Scottish Album of the Year in 2012. In 2017 a second a second disc with Métier will include premiere recordings of new works by Esaias Järnegard, Richard Barrett, John Croft, Brice Pauset, Evan Johnson and Fabrice Fitch, with support from Creative Scotland. Alongside his three monograph discs, he has recorded with ensembles musikFabrik, Ensemble Octandre, SMASH ensemble, Distractfold ensemble and Grizzana Ensemble. As an improviser he has performed with Barry Guy, the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and recorded with the group alongside Evan Parker.
As a performer/composer, he has released the disc AMP/AL in collaboration with Rodrigo Constanzo and artist Angela Guyton in 2013.