Gordon Gottlieb

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Gordon Gottlieb (born October 23, 1948 in New York City ) is an American percussionist and conductor who has emerged in both classical and fusion music.

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Gottlieb, whose brother is the pianist Jay Gottlieb, received his first lessons as a percussionist from James Wimer. He then studied up to his master's degree at the Juilliard School with Saul Goodman , Elden Bailey and Morris Goldenberg and attended courses with Cloyd Duff at the Aspen Music Festival .

Gottlieb has worked as a solo percussionist and timpanist for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra since 1970 and has also performed with numerous international orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra , the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra . The conductors he has worked with include Leonard Bernstein , Pierre Boulez , Zubin Mehta , Kurt Masur , Lorin Maazel , Alan Gilbert , Erich Leinsdorf , Leopold Stokowski , Colin Davis , Bernard Haitink , Igor Markevich , Antal Doráti , Claudio Abbado , Charles Dutoit , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Riccardo Chailly , Riccardo Muti , Esa-Pekka Salonen and James Levine .

As an interpreter of New Music, Gottlieb has performed with the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble , the Juilliard Ensemble , Speculum Musicae and the Group for Contemporary Music , recorded Béla Bartók's Sonata for two pianos and percussion with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and was under Robert Craft involved in recordings of works by Igor Stravinsky . He was a soloist in Pierre Boulez ' concert series and formed a duo with his brother Jay, which commissioned compositions for works for piano and percussion; he also made recordings with Philip Glass .

Gottlieb is also active in the field of fusion jazz. He has appeared on Grammy-winning albums by Steely Dan ( Two Against Nature ), Walter Becker ( Circus Money ) and Paul Winter ( Prayer for the Wild Things ). He has also worked with musicians such as Miles Davis , Quincy Jones , Keith Jarrett , Chick Corea , George Benson , Michael Jackson , Sting , Donald Fagen , Stevie Wonder , Whitney Houston , Carly Simon , Grace Jones , Tony Bennett , Lena Horne , Patti LaBelle , Debbie Harry , Queen Latifah , Sarah Vaughan , Ray Charles , Eric Clapton , Ravi Shankar , Hermeto Pascoal , Baaba Maal , Alessandra Belloni , Al Jarreau , Pete Seeger , Marc Anthony , Wyclef Jean , Meat Loaf , Bette Midler , Paula Abdul , Céline Dion , Michael Bolton , David Sanborn , Frankie Valli , Gladys Knight , Aretha Franklin , Clay Aiken , Dianne Reeves , Chaka Khan and Diana Krall .

In total, he made recordings for 50 record labels, recorded music for 170 films as a studio musician (including Fame , The Wiz , The Cotton Club , A Chorus Line , The Beauty and the Beast , Aladdin , Dirty Dancing , Brennpunkt LA - The professionals are back ) and worked as a musician on television programs and commercials.

Gottlieb conducted the New York premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies ' Vesalii Icones , assisted Arthur Weisberg in the performance of Pierre Boulez ' Pli Selon Pli , and conducted a performance of William Walton's Façade in Carnegie Hall in 1981 with Anna Russell as narrator, Shaker Loops by John Adams at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival , Gian Carlo Menotti's Das Telefon or Die Liebe zu threes at the Davos Music Festival and numerous performances of Stravinski's Histoire du soldat . He taught at the Yale School of Music for ten years ; since 1991 he has been a member of the teaching staff at the Juilliard School . He also gave master classes in North and South America, Europe and Asia and participated in the KoSA International Percussion Workshops in 1996 .

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SURNAME Gottlieb, Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American percussionist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City