专辑简介

Joseph Hudson's music has been played by performers such as: Speculum Musicae, The Group for Contemporary Music, Gilbert Kalish, Ursula Oppens, Curt Cacioppo, Resonance, The New Music Consort, and The Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. He has received commissions from noted performers, such as Robert Miller, Joel Krosnik, and David Burge.
 He has also 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 recorded 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]. An internet release of some of his collected works will be available on iTunes in early 2010.
 In addition to his work as a composer, Joe was active for many years in the commercial music field. He has arranged for and performed with such pop artists as: The O’Jays, The Marvelettes, The Shirelles, Maureen McGovern, Wild Cherry, and Richie Havens, among many others. He was also very active as a composer of music for television and radio commercials, having written and arranged music for over 500 commercials, including national campaigns for: Dodge, Chevrolet, Texaco, British Air, Ford, GTE, and Jaguar. His awards for his commercial work include three Cleos, and a Cannes Lion.

A New York City resident from 1971-2008, he currently lives full time in Saugerties, New York.