Richard Beaudoin

Richard Beaudoin is a composer born in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. He studied composition and theory in America at Brandeis University and Amherst College, and in London at the Royal Academy of Music. Each respective institution awarded him their highest honor for composition—the Gershwin Prize at Brandeis, the Sundquist Award at Amherst College, and the Theodore Holland Award at the RAM. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Vermont, and has worked at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

In the summer of 2007, the first act of his opera-in-progress based on Herman Melville’s PIERRE was staged at London’s Arcola Theatre, directed by Andrew Steggall. In the autumn, the pianist Constantine Finehouse released a new CD entitled ‘Backwards Glance’, pairing two of Beaudoin’s works with two by Johannes Brahms. His ongoing involvement with tenor Joseph Kaiser will continue with the première of a new song cycle on tour throughout America in the spring of 2008. Richard’s scholarly writing has been accepted for publication by Perspectives of New Music and Organised Sound.

In 2005, he accepted a position at Amherst College as the Joseph E and Grace W Valentine Professor of Music.

Five Counterpoints (2005), Virga Jesse Floruit (2005) and Pavane d'Isabelle (2007) were performed during the 2007 AFNOM festival in London.

Contact information

www.richardbeaudoin.com