Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond is a New Zealand-born electric and acoustic bassist, songwriter, and producer based in New York City. Richard is the original and current bassist with Hamilton: An American Musical. He was also bassist for the Broadway run of Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark. He has toured with Joan Osborne, Patti Austin, Nena, Erasure, Raul Midon, Lizz Wright, David Johansen, Angelique Kidjo, Jonatha Brooke, Dar Williams, and The East Village Opera Company among others. He has recorded on the Grammy winning Original Cast Recording of Hamilton: An American Musical, along with Grammy Nominated Albums by Joan Osborne, Raul Midon and The East Village Opera Company, and has worked with legendary producers Arif Mardin, Phil Ramone, Neil Dorfsman, Jack Douglass, Steve Lilywhite and Tony Visconti. Major motion picture soundtracks include Hamilton: An American Musical, The Incredibles 2, In The Heights, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, Disney’s Enchanted, and most recently was featured on Martin Scorsese’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only.

Crossing a broad range of musical genres, he has performed with an array of artists including Bono and The Edge, Elvis Costello, Vanessa Williams, Carlos Santana, Tired Pony (members of Snow Patrol, REM, Belle & Sebastian), Rita Wilson, Robert Randolph, Bob Moses, Louis Bellson, Luciana Souza and Mose Allison among many others.