Richard Harvey, born Richard Allen Harvey on September 25, 1953 in London, England, is a British composer and multi-instrumentalist. Educated at the Royal College of Music, he emerged as a founding member of the progressive rock group Gryphon in the 1970s. After the group disbanded, Harvey worked as a session musician, contributing to Kate Bush's Lionheart and Gerry Rafferty's Night Owl. Introduced to film scoring by Maurice Jarre, he made his feature film debut with Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1981. He composed music for numerous productions, including Animal Farm (1999), Arabian Nights (2000), Luther (2003), Les deux mondes (2007), and Le Petit Prince (2015). In 2002, he co-founded the music publishing company West One Music Group with Tony Prior.
