Richard Beaudoin, Composer

September 2011: Mr Beaudoin's article "A Musical Photograph?", co-authored with Dr Andrew Kania of Trinity University, will be published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (JAAC).

September 2011: The Chiara String Quartet will give the American premiere of Beaudoin's Étude d’un prélude X—Second String Quartet on 30 September at Sanders Theater in Cambridge, alongside Ives’ First Quartet and Brahms' Op. 51/2.

January-April 2011: Annette Dasch and pianist Ulrich Naudé performed Nach-Fragen on 25 January 2011 at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, organized by the Elbphilharmonie Konzerte, on 2 February 2011 in Ljubljana, on 8 February 2011 at the Brucknerhaus in Linz and on 30 April 2011 at the Festspiele in Schwetzingen. The program also included lieder by Beethoven and Brahms.

May 2011: The Kreutzer Quartet recorded five of Mr Beaudoin's new works at sessions in London in May 2011. The sessions, which were attended by the composer, included Étude d’un prélude X—Second String Quartet (ca. 35’, composed in 2009) and la durée sans contacts s’affaiblit (ca. 23’, composed in 2010).

February 2011: Mr Beaudoin's new stage work, The After-Image, commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera, received its première on 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 February 2011 at the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston. The work starred bass Kevin Burdette and mezzo-soprano Jamie van Eyck, and was directed by David Schweizer.

December 2010: Mr Beaudoin's article "You're There and You're Not There: Musical Borrowing and Cavell's 'Way'" was published in The Journal of Music Theory, Volume 54:1 (Duke University Press).

December 2010: The pianist Mark Knoop recorded six of Beaudoin’s piano works at Potton Hall, near Snape, UK. Works include Études d’un prélude I, IV, VII and XI (Chopin desséché, Black Wires, Latticed Window and four28, all composed 2009), nach Webern, nach Pollini (2009-10) and la fille floutée (2010).

Spring 2010: Mr. Beaudoin gave lectures on his Étude d’un prélude series at Cambridge University (to both the Faculty of Music and 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).