Dr. Andrew Hudson was born in Nashville, Tennessee and grew up in Radford, Virginia . He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts, receiving the Bachelor of Music degree and winning the Irwin Freundlich award for piano playing. He received a full scholarship to the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music where he earned the Master of Music degree and completed the Doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin (all degrees in piano performance). Dr. Hudson has given solo and collaborative performances in Italy, Germany, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the United States. During the summers of 2001-2004 he served as faculty pianist at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria . He is an active vocal accompanist and coach, having performed approximately fourteen hundred songs/arias with singers from around the word, including alumni of the Bayreuth, Leipzig, Metropolitan, and Nice Operas, and the National Opera of Prague. He is currently on the piano faculty of McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas and is the rehearsal pianist for the Lyric Opera Waco. His wife, Dr. Terry Lynn Hudson, serves on the piano faculty of Baylor University. |
