Michael Zev Gordon
Born in London, Michael Zev Gordon is a composer of highly crafted pieces with a strong lyrical charge. Influences from his wide range of teachers – Holloway, Knussen, Donatoni, Andriessen and Woolrich – have coalesced into a subtle, individual voice, characterized by richly varied musical colours – the tonal and atonal happily rub shoulders in his work – always at the service of larger, expressive goals. Memory has been a recurring subject in his work.
Gordon’s music has been performed by many leading ensembles, including commissions for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, Britten Sinfonia and Chroma. Soloists include Carolin Widmann, Huw Watkins, Nicholas Daniel, Toby Spence, Richard Watkins and Alina Ibragimova. He also enjoys writing for choir – involving among others the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, New London Chamber Choir and the BBC Singers – and has twice won the choral category of the British Composer Awards. The second of these was for Allele for 40 voices, a work written on the subject of genes, in collaboration with the poet Ruth Padel and scientists from King’s College London. Other awards include a Prix Italia for his radiophonic work A Pebble in the Pond, while On Memory, an NMC portrait disc of piano music, was in The Times top 10 contemporary CDs of 2009.
Though mostly composing for professionals, Gordon is also strongly committed to working with students, amateur and younger players. He led composition teaching on the Contemporary Music for Amateurs (CoMA) summer school in 2008; Joshi’s Dance was included in the Associated Board’s grade 3 violin syllabus of 2012-15; while he has long taught composition in higher education – at the universities of Southampton and Durham, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Birmingham, where he is now Professor of Composition.
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A Short Book of Harmonies
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
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A Small Folly
for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
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Allele
for 40 voices
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Baruch
Ten Propositions of Baruch Spinoza for tenor and piano
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Bohortha
Seven Pieces for Orchestra
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Burnished Bright
for horn and piano
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Fragments from a Diary
for violin, clarinet and piano
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Glass Mountain
for accordion, bass clarinet and string trio
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i carry your heart
for a cappella choir
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In the Middle of Things
trio for violin, cello and piano
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In veritate
for a cappella choir
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Mandelstam Settings
for mezzo-soprano and piano
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Pastorale
for solo horn
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Psalm 150
for choir and organ
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Roseland
for violoncello and piano
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Sehnsucht
for ensemble
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Summer Fallow
for a cappella choir
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There Always
arranged for string orchestra
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There We Sat Down 2
for 5-part choir
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This Night
for choir and solo cello
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