Hudson has multiple premieres this upcoming year: a new 30-minute commission with the international tenor, Mark Padmore CBE, horn player, Ben Goldscheider (winner of the BBC Young Musician 2016) and the London Mozart Players orchestra with Nicholas Cleobury, conductor; the 13th World Choral Games, the largest global choral festival, in Auckland, New Zealand with the Delaware Choral Scholars; a revised version of his 30-minute Epitaphs of War in Nancy (France) which was described to have ‘startling imagination’ are the first performance.
Hudson has collaborated as the piano soloist premiering Paul Mealor’s Piano Concerto with the London Mozart Players which was praised by the Financial Times saying: “…the premiere of Paul Mealor’s Piano Concerto, a glittering conclusion, played with flair by John Frederick Hudson.” (Richard Fairman, Financial Times). He returns to the piano this summer to perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, celebrating the 100th anniversary of its inception.
Hudson has both performed in the BBC Proms as well as assisted Simon Halsey in the preparation for Verdi’s Requiem with Marin Alsop, and for Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with Donald Runnicles. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Classic FM, Hudson conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) for a special concert in the presence of HM King Charles III on a live broadcast to 12 million listeners.
