Richard Dudas

About the composer...

Richard Dudas is an American composer of contemporary classical art music. In addition to writing music for acoustic instruments, he has been actively invloved with computer music since the late 1980s. From 1996 to 1998 he taught computer music courses at the musical research center IRCAM in Paris, France, and from 1999 to 2008 worked for Cycling ’74, Inc., developing musical tools and audio effects for the musical software programming environment, Max/MSP. Since 2007 he has been teaching music composition and computer music at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, where he currently holds the position of Assistant Professor.

Recent News:

In July 2011, Dudas' Prelude and Fantasy for Alto Flute and Computer was given its European premiere on the opening concert of the 2011 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Huddersfield, UK, by flautist Helen Whitaker.

In June 2011, Dudas' Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was given its North American premiere by clarinetist Rane Moore and pianist Hubert Ho at the Seven Cats No.2 concert in Boston, MA.

Leonardo Music Jouranal's 2010 edition (LMJ20), which focuses on improvisation and technology includes a short article by Richard Dudas about the relationship between composition and improvisation within interactive performance systems.

In September 2010, the latest in a series of Richard Dudas's compositions for instrument with real-time computer interaction, Prelude and Fantasy for Alto Flute and Computer, was premiered at the 2010 Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF), by flautist Martina Roth from the Freiburg-based Ensemble Aventure, who curated the festival's final concert.

In May 2009, Dudas' arrangement for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra of Korean composer Lyun Joon Kim's Elegy was performed by saxophonist Sam-Jong Shim and the Hanyang University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Eunsong Park at the Seoul Arts Center.

In November 2008, Dudas was invited to the Moscow Autumn 30th International Contemporary Music Festival, where two of his compositions for instrument and live electronics were performed. In conjunction with the festival, he also taught computer workshops at the Moscow P. I. Tschaikovsky Conservatory of Music's Theremin Center.