Discipline: Music Composition

Paul Beaudoin

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Allston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996, 1998
Paul Beaudoin is an American composer, theorist, author, and educator from Hialeah, FL, who currently lives and works in Providence, RI. Beaudoin received degrees from the University of Miami, the New England Conservatory, and Brandeis University, studying under the guidance of Martin Boykan, Robert Cogan, Michael Finnissy, and Dennis Kam. He then taught at several universities, including Northeastern University, the New England Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory, and Somerset Community College, and received widespread recognition for his teaching, such as the Brandeis Prize Instructorship, and the Excellence in Teaching Award from Northeastern University. Beaudoin has authored several papers and books, including Music of the U.S.A.: A Documentary Companion, and papers on the work of Milton Babbitt, and György Ligeti. He has received international recognition for his online courses in music and art, and was an American composer-in-residence at the Royal Opera House Garden Venture in Dartington, England, a fellow at the Wellesley Composer’s Conference (1997), the festival at Sandpoint, June in Buffelo, and a participant in the Orpheus Academy for Music Theory in Ghent, Belgium. Beaudoin currently teaches at Fitchburg State University, and lectures at Rhode Island College in Providence, RI.

Studios

Monday Music

Paul Beaudoin worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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