Richard Beaudoin is an American composer from North Attleborough, MA. Beaudoin began his studies at Amherst College, and the Greenwood Music Camp under Lew Spratlan, and went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music and Brandeis University under Michael Finnissy and David Rakowski. Beaudoin then taught at several universities, including Amherst College as a visiting professor of music, Harvard University as a composition and analysis teacher, Brandeis University as a lecturer, and was a visiting research fellow in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Beaudoin has given lectures at several institutions internationally, including at the Centre for Music and Science at Cambridge University, The Shanghai Conservatory, and the Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft at the Hochscule, Luzern, Switzerland, and has had his writing published in numerous journals and books, including Perspectives of New Music, The Journal of Music Theory, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Beaudoin is currently teaching and lecturing at Dartmouth College.
Portrait by Eli Burakian
