Richard Beaudoin, Composer

Spring 2010: Mr. Beaudoin has been invited to give lectures on his Étude d’un prélude series at Cambridge University (at the Department of Music and at the Centre for Music and Science, 23 March 2010), at London’s Royal Academy of Music (19 March 2010), at an Artist Master Class the Steinhardt School, New York University, 4 February 2010) and at New England Conservatory (16 April 2010). Premières of the new works are being given Europe and America throughout 2010.

Spring 2010: “Conceiving Musical Transdialection”, a paper co-authored with Professor Joseph Moore, is being published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Spring 2010: Mr. Beaudoin holds the post of Lecturer on Music at Harvard University, where he teaches composition and theory. He has been awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching three times.

January 2010: Scholarship related to Mr. Beaudoin’s new works include a paper co-written with Professors Stephen Davies and Jonathan McKeown-Green (both of the University of Auckland), as well as a series of interviews with the composer conducted by the musicologist Danick Trottier.

January 2010: Backwards Glance, a new recording of two of Beaudoin’s early piano pieces alongside two by Johannes Brahms, has been released by the pianist Constantine Finehouse.

Fall 2009: Mr. Beaudoin holds the post of Lecturer on Music at Harvard University.Courses will include Composition, Theory II, Reading and Research for Advanced Students, Foundations of Tonal Music I. He was awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for 2008-2009.

March 2009: Annette Dasch and Wolfram Rieger performed the new song cycle, Nach-Fragen, to great acclaim at the Konzerthaus-Dortmund, Wiener Konzerthaus and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

18 September 2008: At Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art, the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble and tenor Frank Kelley premièred the ensemble version of Mr. Beaudoin’s Eunoia Songs, setting five texts from Christian Bök’s Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001).

Summer 2008: Mr. Beaudoin’s article “Anonymous Sources: Finnissy Analysis and the opening of Chapter 8 of The History of Photography in Sound” appears in the most recent edition of Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 45/2).

May 2008: Mr. Beaudoin defended his Ph.D. dissertation in composition and music theory at Brandeis University, and earned the degree in May. The analysis portion of the dissertation is entitled “Boulez-fixe: Construction and Cadence in Memoriale (…explosante-fixe…Originel)”.

2 April 2008: Annette Dasch offered a glimpse of Mr. Beaudoin’s in-progress song-cycle during her Liederabend at the Heidelberger-Frühling. She sang “Wir wollen Abschied nehmen unter diesem Baum”, and was accompanied by pianist Ulrich Naudé.

April 2008: Tenor Joseph Kaiser commissioned a song cycle based on poems from Heinrich Heine’s Romanzero. Mr. Kaiser, accompanied by pianist Craig Rutenberg, were to perform the work at venues across the country this spring, including at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York. This performance was cancelled due to the illness of both Mr. Kaiser and Mr. Rutenberg.