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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...
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...
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....
18 Mar 2016
The Munich Philharmonic and guest conductor James Gaffigan will give the world premiere performances of composer Geoffrey Gordon's new concerto for trumpet and orchestra, CHASE, commissioned for esteemed soloist Guido Segers. CHASE is inspired by ...
10 Mar 2016
Geoffrey Gordon's double concerto Saint Blue, commissioned for Simon Desbruslais, Clare Hammond and the English Symphony Orchestra (through generous support from Arts Council England) is mentioned in the March issue of Classical Music Magazine:
11 Jan 2016
Cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Steven Beck give the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's "engaging and colorful" FATHOMS cello sonata, after Shakespeare's Tempest, at Carnegie Hall.....
23 Nov 2015
New York Times review of the world premiere of Geoffrey Gordon's QUINTET for clarinet and strings, with the JACK Quartet and clarinet soloist Anthony McGill, at Roulette, in NYC, Friday, 17 November 2015....
5 Nov 2015
Cellist Toke Moldrup and pianist Katrine Gislinge will give the world premiere performance of composer Geoffrey Gordon's new cello sonata, FATHOMS, after William Shakespeare's The Tempest, at Carnegie Hall, December 17, 2015.....
19 Oct 2015
Austria's Ensemble Zeitfluss to give the European premiere of composer Geoffrey Gordon's Meditation and Allegro for Viola and Ensemble, as part of a program to be presented in Graz, Austria, on November 6, 2015. The work will also be performed as ...
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Tommi Hyytinen/Geoffrey Gordon: Winterleben (European premiere)
Sibelius Academy
Helsinki, Finland
Friday, 29 January 2021 - 7:00 PM
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GORDON: Prometheus - Philharmonia Orchestra/Brabbins/Ben Slimane
15 Aug 2019
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Gordon: A Canticle in Shards
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Gordon: Ink on Paper
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Gordon: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Cello
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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)
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Gordon: Prometheus: a concerto for bass clarinet and orchestra after Kafka
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