Geoffrey Gordon

Geoffrey Gordon (born August 28, 1968 in Flint ) is an American composer.

Life

Gordon grew up in New York, attended Detroit high school, and trained as a singer and composer. During the International New Music Program 1999, the Riverside Symphony premiered its Concerto in One Movement for violin and orchestra. On December 31 of the same year, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andreas Delfs played the world premiere of the special composition Millenniumiana .

For cellist Elizabeth Morrow , Gordon Lorca Musica composed for cello solo based on motifs from his ballet The House of Bernarda Alba from 1995. She recorded the piece for her album Soliloquy and played it at the World Cello Congress 2000. As a Fellow of the Composers Conferenc'e on Wellesley College composed the sonata da chroma for instrumental ensemble and harpsichord, which was played at the Music 2000 Festival in Cincinnati. In the same year the Ensemble Aleph played his chamber music work Caravaggio at the First International Composers Forum in Cannes.

In 2001 the Riverside Symphony premiered the An Imagined Poussin Triptych for string orchestra. In 2004, compositions by Gordon were included in the North River Music Series program at Greenwich House in New York. In the same year he received a composition commission for a work for the recorder player Clea Galhano and the harpsichordist Vivian Montgomery ; the play Echoes of Ferrara premiered in 2006.

Fallen Eve for mezzo-soprano and mixed ensemble based on texts by Ted Hughes was performed at the 2007 French-American Music Festival in Paris. In 2009 he won the Aaron Copland Award and was composer in residence at the Aaron Copland House . This year a composition as part of the Meet the Composer project and a work commissioned by the Parker String Quartet were premiered.

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SURNAME	Gordon, Geoffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Flint