Orlando Gough

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Orlando Gough in Stavanger (2008)

Orlando Mathew Leslie Gough (born August 24, 1953 in Brighton , Sussex ) is a British composer.

Life

Orlando Gough attended Harrow School in London , where he was a member of the school's cricket team from 1969 to 1970 . He studied mathematics at Oxford , worked as a teacher and in 1987 wrote a mathematics textbook: The Complete Advanced Level Mathematics . He is married to Joanna Osborne, has two sons and lives in Brighton .

Gough is a self-taught composer , he plays the piano , keyboard and drums . He began in the early 80s in the bands The Lost Jockey and their successor Man Jumping , who were interested in the minimal music of Steve Reich and Philip Glass and increasingly performed their own compositions. In 1998 he founded the choir The Shout with the composer Richard Chew, which received the 2001 Time Out Award for Classical Artist. Gough has written music for ballet, modern dance, and theater. His work includes Tall Stories (2001), composed with Chew, a song cycle for choir on the subject of immigration in New York at the beginning of the 20th century. He wrote the dance piece Just Add Water? with the choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, the music for Saeta for the Royal Ballet . At the Theater der Welt 2005 in Stuttgart he performed the harbor concert The Singing River, for 12 choirs, 18 boats, two cranes and a locomotive (choreography for ships, cranes and five hundred singers) , the oratorio The Most Beautiful Man From The Sea for the Welsh National Opera , We Turned On The Light for the Proms . Commissioned by the British opera houses, he designed the children's play On the Rim Of The World . For the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall in 2007, he is staging choral music. From Stavanger , the European Capital of Culture in 2008 , he received the order for the music for the final festival with 500 choirs. On New Year's Eve of the same year, he performed his rocket symphony in the opening fireworks of the cultural capital Linz 2009 .

The HMS Belfast served as the orchestra in the composition
XX Scharnhorst (2012)

Gough has composed the music for a number of films, including with John Lunn for The Wisdom of the Crocodiles (1998).

In 2010 he and Nitin Sawhney , Jocelyn Pook received a commission from the Royal Opera House for a short opera each, and Caryl Churchill wrote the libretto for A Ring a lamp a thing for him . He composed Transmission in 2011 and XX Scharnhorst , both pieces were written for a performance on the decommissioned warship HMS Belfast and were performed in 2011 and 2012 as part of the Thames Festival . In addition to two choirs, the hull acted as a body for a group of percussionists . For 2013 Gough worked with Susannah Waters and Stephen Plaice on the opera Imago for the Glyndebourne Festival .

Works (selection)

  • Rocket Symphony , 2009
  • The Finnish Opera , 2007
  • Caryl Churchill , Orlando Gough: Hotel: in a room anything can happen; 13 singers, 2 dancers, 3 instrumentalists and eight rooms in a hotel . Hern, London 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gough & Man Jumping Biographies in music.us ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.music.us
  2. ↑ Gough in cricketarchive.com
  3. ↑ Man Jumping, see English Wikipedia en: Man Jumping
  4. ^ John O'Mahony: Operas about wags? Why not, says the Royal Opera House , The Guardian , June 10, 2010
  5. ↑ Orlando Gough - Transmission 2011 ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and XX Scharnhorst ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Thames Festival @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thamesfestival.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thamesfestival.org
  6. ^ Andrew Clark: Music for a virtual life , Financial Times , February 2, 2013. Susannah Waters, see English Wikipedia en: Susannah Waters ; Stephen Plaice, see English Wikipedia en: Stephen Plaice
  7. ↑ Nick Coleman: Chorus in a car park , The Guardian , July 10, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Gough, Orlando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gough, Orlando Mathew Leslie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton , Sussex