Faculty Biography

JJ Hudson, Lecturer


Contact:
(585) 389-2700
JJHudson1@peoplepc.com

Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Voice


Education:
Eastman School of Music, DMA
Eastman School of Music, MM

University of Iowa, MA
Stetson University, BM


Biography:
JJ Hudson, bass-baritone, has performed throughout the Western and Central New York region, as well as with various opera and concert organizations throughout the country. He has performed more than twenty opera/lyric theater roles including: Leporello (Don Giovanni), Olin Blitch (Susannah), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd), Giorgio (Passion), Shaunard and Colline (La Bohème), Grenvil and Douphol (La Traviata), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), and Selim (Il Turco in Italia). He’s appeared with Eastman Opera Theater, Rochester Opera Factory, Tacoma Opera (WA), Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Music by the Lake (WI), and the Centro Studi Opera Festival (Urbania, Italy). Hudson has studied voice with Carol Webber, John Muriello, and Gordon Ohlsson.

As a stage director, Hudson has directed several full productions and numerous opera scenes programs in professional and academic settings. In 2005, he directed Mercury Opera Rochester’s inaugural production of Mascagni’s L’Amico Fritz. In 2003, he directed the workshop premier of operetta scholar, Richard Traubner’s new edition of Henri Christine’s Phi-Phi with the Eastman Opera Workshop. Hudson has also acted as an assistant director to several renowned directors including Ron Luchsinger at Opera North (NH), and Steven Daigle at the Eastman School of Music. In December 2008, he will be directing Mercury Opera’s annual production of Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Hudson is currently also on the faculties of SUNY-Oswego and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Before relocating to the Central New York area, Hudson taught on the faculties of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Concord University (WV).