Geoffrey Gordon

Minnesota Orchestra - Meet composer Geoffrey Gordon

19 Apr 2019

The Minnesota Orchestra will give the US premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's new work, Prometheus, later this month. Meet the composer, and learn more about his work....

Geoffrey Gordon's Prometheus to be featured on Minnesota Public Radio broadcast | Classical MPR with the Minnesota Orchestra

9 Apr 2019

The Minnesota Orchestra performance of Geoffrey Gordon's new bass clarinet concerto, Prometheus, will be broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio, on Friday, 25 April, 2019, with soloist Tim Zavadil and conductor Osmo Vanska. Prometheus was co-commissi...

GORDON: PUCK - fleeing from the dawn | Orchestre symphonique de Québec

19 Mar 2019

The Orchestre Symphonique de Québec announce their 2019-20 concert season which will include the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's orchestral work, PUCK - fleeing from the dawn, on a program with Beethoven and Mendelssohn, on 9 October, from the...

Muse-IC : Geoffrey Gordon premiere | Institut Curie

24 Jan 2019

Geoffrey Gordon's new chamber work, Cosmic Inflation and the End of the Dark Ages, commissioned by the Curie Institute in Paris, will premiere at the Salle Cortot, on 12 March 2019, in a performance featuring members of the Orchestre Philharmoniq...

Q & A with Principal Bass Clarinet Laurent Ben Slimane | Philharmonia Orchestra

2 Jan 2019

Soloist Laurent Ben Slimane discusses Geoffrey Gordon's new bass clarinet concerto, Prometheus, which he will premiere later this month with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Martyn Brabbins, at Royal Festival Hall in London.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group | Wilde Lieder Marx.Music

16 Aug 2018

Composer Geoffrey Gordon has been named a prize winner in the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's Wilde Lieder Marx.Music competition. Gordon's Harmonie, a setting of an early, romantic text by political theorist Karl Marx, will premiere in Marx...

GORDON - Ode To A Nightingale for mixed choir and solo cello (excerpt)

14 Jun 2018

This is an excerpt from the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's Ode to a Nightingale, a setting of the John Keats poem for mixed choir and solo cello, featuring the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and cellist Toke Moldrup. The performance to...

Muse-IC Project commissions composer Geoffrey Gordon

21 May 2018

The Muse-IC Project, founded by the "University Paris Sciences et Letters" and hosted by the Institut Curie, with the cooperation of the CNSM (Conservatory of Paris), commissions composer Geoffrey Gordon to write a new chamber work inspired by re...

Geoffrey Gordon: Saint Blue double concerto, from The Art of Dancing - review by Classical Ear

6 May 2018

"Geoffrey Gordon’s Saint Blue, inspired by two Kandinsky paintings ('All Saints 1' and 'In Blue', well worth a web search), is by far the best work on this engaging disc; a taut and exhilarating single movement concerto, wonderfully played by solo...

18/19 London Season | Philharmonia Orchestra to premiere new work by Geoffrey Gordon

5 Feb 2018

The Philharmonia Orchestra and guest conductor Martyn Brabbins will give the world premiere performances of composer Geoffrey Gordon's Prometheus, a concerto for bass clarinet and orchestra, commissioned for the Philharmonia Orchestra's own solois...

Schönberg and the Ecstasy of Composing - Vienna premieres

27 Jan 2018

Two new works by composer Geoffrey Gordon will premiere on a program at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna on March 16, 2018. The recital, which will also include songs by Schönberg, will feature baritone Tobias Greehalgh, mezzo Natalia Kawalek...

Presto Classical - The Art of Dancing - Signum: featuring Geoffrey Gordon's Saint Blue

8 Aug 2017

Simon Desbruslais returns to disc on Signum, with pianist Clare Hammond and the English String Orchestra, with an album that continues to expand the repertoire of the trumpet even further, with four new commissions for trumpet, piano and String Or...

Mario Merz Prize

5 Jul 2017

Geoffrey Gordon has been awarded the 2017 Merz Prize in music composition by the Mario Merz Foundation. Held every two years, the Mario Merz Prize, was established with the intent of identifying and bringing to the public eye personalities in the...

CRUCIFIXUS for double choir (SATB/SATB) and solo cello by composer Geoffrey Gordon

8 May 2017

The premiere performance of composer Geoffrey Gordon's new choral work, CRUCIFIXUS, from Copenhagen, featuring the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and cello soloist Toke Møldrup. The work is for double choir and solo cello, and this recording is provide...

Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir live from Copenhagen - Danish Radio broadcast premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's CRUCIFIXUS

3 May 2017

The world premiere live broadcast of composer Geoffrey Gordon's CRUCIFIXUS, for double choir and solo cello, featuring the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and cello soloist Toke Moldrup, from the historic Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen, on Danish Radio.....

Concert: Gordon, Mahler, - Gaffigan, Segers: Munich Philharmonics

14 Feb 2017

The Munich Philharmonic, conductor James Gaffigan and soloist Guido Segers, premiere Geoffrey Gordon's new concerto for trumpet and orchestra, Chase, after the works of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, on a program which includes Mahler's "Tragi...

Tenebrae – Easter Light | Mogens Dahl Koncertsal A/S

11 Jan 2017

The world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's CRUCIFIXUS for double choir and solo cello, will be given by the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and soloist Toke Moldrup, for whom the work was written, THURSDAY APRIL 13TH 2017, on an Easter program including wo...

Geoffrey Gordon- Saint Blue - YouTube

18 Dec 2016

Today is the 150th birthday of the iconic painter Wassily Kandinsky, an artist beloved of musicians worldwide. In his honour, we offer a sneak peek at our forthcoming recording of composer Geoffrey Gordon's ultra virtuoso double concerto for trum...

Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS London premiere....

28 Jul 2016

Geoffrey Gordon's FATHOMS: Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude) for cello and piano will receive its UK premiere on 8 May 2017, at historic St John's Smith Square, in London. Cellist Toke Moldrup, for whom the work was comm...

SHORT LIST FIVE FINALISTS | Mario Merz Prize

3 May 2016

Composer Geoffrey Gordon selected as one of five finalists, worldwide, for the Second Edition of the Mario Merz Prize in music composition....