Before the markets and the models, there was the music: a working career as a musician, followed by a self-taught composing practice that was formally examined and licensed in Rome in 1986.
Richie's musical life began as a performing musician, well before his analytical career took shape. Composition followed as a self-taught pursuit — developed independently rather than through formal conservatory training, then put to the test in 1986 with a licensing and certification examination sat in Rome, Italy.
That combination — an ear trained on stage, and a compositional discipline verified by exam — is the same pairing of intuition and rigor that shows up in his later analytical work on markets and, later still, on film narrative structure.
This page is intentionally light on specifics — add the instruments/roles from your performing career, the name and issuing body of the 1986 Rome examination, and any compositions, recordings, or scores you'd like listed below.
Self-taught composer · Former working musician
A place to list original compositions, performance history, or recordings once you're ready to publish them.
List individual pieces here (title, year, instrumentation, and a link or embedded player), or send me the details and I'll lay them out as a proper discography grid.