Performed by Pete Furniss, clarinet and David Leiher Jones, piano.
Performance score available at https://www.swirlymusic.org/music/chamber-music/solo-instrument/richard-dudas-sonata-for-clarinet-and-piano/

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Performed by Pete Furniss, clarinet.
Performance score available at: https://www.swirlymusic.org/music/chamber-music/solo-instrument/variations-for-clarinet-solo/

Variations for Clarinet Solo

Performed by Christian Colberg, violin.
Performance score available at: https://www.swirlymusic.org/music/chamber-music/solo-instrument/variations-for-solo-violin/

Variations for Solo Violin

Performed by Kenneth Tse, alto saxophone and Rebecca Tse, piano.
Performance score available at: https://www.swirlymusic.org/music/chamber-music/solo-instrument/richard-dudas-fantasia-on-lyun-joon-kims-elegy-alto-saxophone/

Designed as a lyrical showpiece to spotlight the elegance of the saxophone’s altissimo register, Fantasia on Lyun Joon Kim’s Elegy was composed in 2009 for the 70th anniversary of Hanyang University, of which Lyun Joon Kim was the founder. Also a poet and composer, Lyun Joon Kim wrote many Korean art songs, from which the Elegy is one of the more widely-known in Korea. This rhapsodic fantasia on Kim’s melody also exists in a version for alto saxophone and orchestra, which was premièred in 2009 by saxophonist Sam-Jong Shim with the Hanyang University Symphony Orchestra. This version, for alto saxophone and piano, was created in 2011 at the request of saxophonist Kenneth Tse.

Fantasia on Lyun Joon Kim's Elegy (piano version)

Performed by Sam-Jong Shim, saxophone, with the Hanyang University Symphony Orchestra, Eunsong Park, conductor.

Fantasia on Lyun Joon Kim's Elegy (orchestra version)

Prelude No. 1 (for Flute and Computer)

Prelude No. 2 for Clarinet and Computer

Prelude and Fantasy for Alto Flute and Computer

Prelude No. 1 (for Viola and Computer)

Electroacoustic work synthesized using IRCAM's Modalys software.

Etudes Aux Objets Virtuels

Performed by Yun-Seo Kang, violin, Yu-Jin Kim, piano.

Passacaglia was written between 2012 and 2014, simultaneously in versions for both violin and viola. It is a lyrical single-movement concert piece, about 7 minutes in duration, that takes a fresh look at an old form. The ground bass upon which the passacaglia is based contains a “rogue” bar, shorter in duration than the rest, which meanders throughout each repetition of the ground, so that no two repetitions are exactly identical. Although the piece is diatonic (it is, in fact, completely devoid of chromatic alterations), its musical texture is tightly and carefully constructed to offer the performer emotional depth and expressivity, and to provide the audience with a clear, relentless forward-moving musical drama.

Passacaglia (for violin and piano)

Performed by Jared Redmond, piano.

For piano and real-time electronics.

Esquisse (in memorium Jean-Claude Risset)

Richard Dudas is an American composer of contemporary classical art music. In addition to writing music for acoustic instruments, he has been actively invloved with computer music since the late 1980s. From 1996 to 1998 he taught computer music courses at the musical research center IRCAM in Paris, France, and from 1999 to 2008 worked for Cycling ’74, Inc., developing musical tools and audio effects for the musical software programming environment, Max/MSP. Since 2007 he has been teaching music composition and computer music at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, where he currently holds the position of Associate Professor.

Richard Dudas

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