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 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.
