Rick Wright is the chief composer at Subtidal Studios. After twenty years of writing and recording his own music, releasing a number of critically acclaimed albums as a solo artist and band leader, and providing music and sound design for films and commercials, he established Subtidal Studios as a consolidated brand for his music output.

Raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Wright played in punk rock bands The Reagan Squad and Anti-Flag. His next stop was Boston in 1997 to attend Berklee College of Music where he received a bachelors in Music Business in 2001. He then built his professional music career composing and producing for clients like Microsoft and BlackBerry as well as for numerous independent businesses and artists. During that time, he also released a string of albums and performed along the West Coast from home-bases in Los Angeles and Seattle.

With an insatiable curiosity to explore any instrument he can get his hands on, Wright has studied vocal performance, guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards for twenty years as well as a multitude of brass, woodwind and stringed instruments, music history, theory and orchestration. He incorporates unconventional sounds and world instruments in his arrangements to create very distinctive yet accessible compositions. Some of his biggest inspirations include Cliff Martinez, Arvo Part, Thomas Newman, Steve Reich, Jon Hopkins, and Hanz Zimmer.