Composer Biography

Richard Dudas holds degrees in Music Composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Jean Eichelberger Ivey, and from The University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with John Thow, Olly Wilson and Edmund Campion. He additionally studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, with János Vajda and the National Regional Conservatory of Nice, France, with Michel Pascal. Richard's compositions have been performed in the U.S, the U.K., France, Germany, Hungary, Russia and Korea, among others. In addition to writing music for acoustic instruments, he has been actively involved 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. In the Spring of 2002 he was a visiting lecturer in computer music at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was a regular lecturer at the CNMAT “Max/MSP Nightschool” summer workshops in Berkeley, California from 1998 to 2004, and at the Fourm Neues Musiktheater Max/MSP/Jitter workshops in Stuttgart, Germany from 2005-2006. 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 of composition. In-between semesters he resides in Colorado in the United States.