Richard Dudas

Richard Dudas (born September 11, 1968 in Long Island, New York, U.S.) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, composer of electronic music, and pedagogue based in Colorado and Seoul, Korea.
Biography
Dudas holds a bachelor's degree in music composition from the Peabody Conservatory of Music (where he studied composition with Jean Eichelberger Ivey and Morris Moshe Cotel, and computer music with McGregor Boyle and Geoffrey Wright) and master's and doctorate degrees in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley (studying composition with John Thow, Olly Wilson and Edmund Campion, and computer music with David Wessel). He additionally studied composition with János Vajda at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, and computer music with Michel Pascal at the Conservatoire de Nice, in Nice, France. From 1996 to 1998 he taught computer music at IRCAM, in Paris, France, and is currently a full-time professor of music composition and computer music at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea.
A long-term user of and contributor to the software Max/MSP since its commercial appearance in 1990, he worked as a developer for from 1998 to 2008, contributing primarily to the audio digital signal processing capabilities of the program. He continues to contribute to the software, albeit once again on a more informal basis.
As a composer, his works have encompassed a wide spectrum of both purely instrumental as well as electro-acoustic compositions.
Notable works
* Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1998-2004)
* Prelude for Flute and Computer (2005)
* Prelude for Clarinet and Computer (2006)
Discography
* Sonata for Clarinet and Piano ("Time Pieces", Clarinet Classics, 2007)

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