Richard Beaudoin, Composer

Annette Dasch and pianist Ulrich Naudé will perform 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 work is dedicated to Ms Dasch, whose program will also include lieder by Beethoven and Brahms.

The Boston Lyric Opera has commissioned Mr Beaudoin to compose a chamber opera for their 2010-2011 season. The new work will be performed five times between 1-6 February 2011 at the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston.

May 2010: Premières this month include Mark Knoop, 17 May at King's Place, London (Études d'un prélude I, IV and VII) and Annika Sophie Ritlewski at the Palais Prinz Carl in Heidelberg, Germany (dreifacher Frühling).

Mr Beaudoin's article "You're there and you're not there: Musical Borrowing and Cavell's 'Way'" will be published in The Journal of Music Theory, Volume 54:1.

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 Volume 68:2 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

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. A CD release concert will be held on Friday 30 April at St Paul's Church in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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.

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.