Richard Beaudoin

He comes to Dartmouth after having taught music theory and composition at Harvard University for eight years, and having held posts as Valentine Visiting Professor of Music at Amherst College and Visiting Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

He has given invited lectures at the Paris Conservatoire, the Centre for Music and Science at Cambridge University, Harvard University, The United States Consulate Shanghai Division, The Royal Academy of Music in London, The Shanghai Conservatory of Music, East China Normal University, The Steinhardt School at New York University, The New England Conservatory, Yale University, Boston University, Berklee College of Music, The University of York, and the Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft at the Hochscule, Luzern, Switzerland. Published articles appear in Music Theory Online, The Journal of Music Theory, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Perspectives of New Music, The Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Organized Sound, Divergence Press, and The Journal of the CeReNeM. Recent papers presented at SMT/AMS 2016 in Vancouver, SMT/AMS 2018 in San Antonio, SMT 2019 in Columbus, and SMT/AMS 2020.

Compositions involve the pioneering use of microtiming: iconic recordings are transcribed in minute detail, then treated as a palimpsest, forming a parchment over original material is woven to create innovative new works. Performances at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, The Kitchen, Weill Recital Hall, Boston's The Institute for Contemporary Art, Calderwood Pavilion, Sanders Theatre and Jordan Hall, and in London at the Royal Festival Hall, Duke’s Hall, The Forge, The Arcola Theatre, Wilton’s Music Hall, Pushkin House, and King’s Place. Commissions from Konzerthaus Dortmund, Staatstheater Kassel, the President of Harvard University, Sound Icon, and Boston Lyric Opera.

Ensembles and performers of these compositions include Claire Chase, Roomful of Teeth, Rohan de Saram, Neil Heyde, Boston Lyric Opera, the Kreutzer Quartet, the Chiara String Quartet, Sound Icon, Transient Canvas, Mark Knoop, Colin Davin, Constantine Finehouse, Wolfram Rieger, Ulrich Naudé, Jan Philip Schulze, Philip Howard, Serge Vuille, Carl Rosman, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, and Marilyn Nonken. Vocal music sung by artists including Annette Dasch, Dashon Burton, Estelí Gomez, Joseph Kaiser, Annika Sophie Ritlewski, Frank Kelley, and Kevin Burdette. Recent recordings include Another Woman of Another Kind (based on stories by Paul Griffiths), recorded by Claire Chase and Roomful of Teeth and released in December 2020.

Dartmouth courses include:
MUS 99 Proseminar: Loving Music Slowly
MUS 43 Modern Classical Music 
MUS 42 Early Classical Music
MUS 41.01 Debussy the Innovator 
MUS 40.02 Nineteenth-Century Music
MUS 23 Timbre & Form 
MUS 22 Harmony & Rhythm
MUS 16.01 Visual Music
MUS 3.02 American Music: Covers, Theft, and Musical Borrowing
MUS 1 Beginning Music Theory

[Beaudoin is pronounced bōd-win.]