Joseph Hudson
Joseph Hudson received his compositional training at Kent State University, City College, Columbia University, and S.U.N.Y. Stonybrook, where he received a Ph.D. in composition. While still in his twenties, his music was programmed frequently by such prominent performance groups as Speculum Musicae, The Group for Contemporary Music, Resonance, The New Music Consort, and The Tanglewood Festival Orchestra; and he received commissions from such noted performers such as Robert Miller, Joel Krosnik, and David Burge.
He has since been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including: a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Fromm Foundation Tanglewood Commission, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Award, the Charles Ives Award of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and a BMI student composer's award.
His recent music is characterized by a shift to a more tonal idiom, and has been described by American Record Guide as displaying “sophisticated craftsmanship, and nuanced imagination,” and by Music Web International as “thoroughly convincing… radiant and affirmative.” Many of his earlier works have been published by Mobart Music, and are available on the CRI label. Some of his more recent music may be heard on the CD Millennium Crossings [Capstone Records, 2004], and on a CD of his vocal music Burning With the Muse [MSR Records, 2006].
A New York City resident since 1971, he currently divides his time between Brooklyn, and Saugerties, New York.