After graduating Judd was an assistant conductor of The
Cleveland Orchestra under
Lorin Maazel, after which he served as associate music director of the
European Union Youth Orchestra under
Claudio Abbado. He conducted several recordings with the NZSO for the
Naxos label, and led the NZSO in its first-ever appearance at
The Proms and
Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam in 2005. In 2014, Judd became music director of the
Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion. He offered to waive his salary in 2015, in the wake of financial difficulties at the orchestra. In September 2016, Judd was appointed artistic director and principal conductor of the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea. He concluded his artistic directorship of the orchestra as of the close of the 2021–2022 season. He became chief conductor of the
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra as of the 2017–2018 season. As of 2019 he was scheduled to conclude his chief conductorship of the orchestra as of the close of the 2020–2021 season. Judd has returned to New Zealand to live while holding the position of artistic director and principal conductor of the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea. have a daughter. ==References==