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4 May 2019
The last event associated with the Merz Prize in music composition, awarded to composer Geoffrey Gordon in 2018-19, takes place later this month in Sicily, where the world premiere of his new double string quartet, after Paul ÉLUARD's landmark sur...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Geoffrey Gordon: ABACISCUS: Friction Quartet
Old First Church
San Francisco, California
Friday, 16 August 2019 - 8:00 PM
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Winterleben: five texts by poet Friedrich Rückert, for mezzo, horn and piano
18 Nov 2015
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Gordon: A Canticle in Shards
Gordon: Lux solis aeterna
Gordon: wrecked angels
Gordon: Bright White Smooth
Gordon: Fancywork
Gordon: La tristesse durera toujours
Gordon: Ink on Paper
Gordon: Shock Diamonds
Gordon: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Cello
Gordon: Meditation and Allegro for Viola and Chamber Ensemble
Gordon: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra
Gordon: Abaciscus (for string quartet)
Gordon: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (after Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus)
Gordon: Duo Sonata
Gordon: Winterleben
Gordon: FATHOMS: Five Impressions of Shakespeare's The Tempest (with Prelude) for cello and piano
Gordon: Crucifixus (for SSAATTBB and solo cello)
Gordon: PUCK - fleeing from the dawn
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