NEWS

 

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Fulcrum Point to premiere new work:

Chicago-based new music ensemble Fulcrum Point, Stephen Burns, Artistic Director, to give the world premiere performance of Geoffrey Gordon's lux solis aeterna, for 13 instruments, as part of their highly acclaimed Essential Arts: Essential Elements series.  ALPHA: Air and Water, the first of two concerts on the series, will take place at the Harris Theatre, 25 January 2008, at 7:30pm. (Here is a link to the review of the concert. John von Rhein called lux solis aeterna a work of "cosmic beauty ....")

• A Canticle in Shards to receive London premiere. 10th London New Winds Festival, Catherine Pluygers, Artistic Director, to feature Geoffrey Gordon's work for piano and winds, A Canticle in Shards (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano): Regent Hall, Oxford Street, London, on 23 November, 2007.

• Rarescale, Carla Rees, artistic director, will give the UK premiere of wrecked angels  on 13 June, in London, at St. Giles in the Fields. This harrowing work, scored for flute, cello and guitar, weaves fragments of Monteverdi (the madrigal  Spuntava il dì, from the collection Selva morale e spirituale) into what New York's Times Herald-Record called "a texture of ethereal mysticism".

• As part of the FESTIVAL DE MUSIQUE AMERICAINE at the Theatre Dunois in Paris, May 25-26, Ensemble Aleph and the Contemporary Music Forum of Washington, D.C. will present the European premiere of Fallen Eve. A setting of five texts by British poet Ted Hughes for mezzo soprano and chamber ensemble, Fallen Eve was commissioned by the Abelson Foundation (Mr. Gordon received the inaugural Abelson Prize in 2005).  Subsequent performances in Washington D.C. are planned for October. Details to be announced. These performances are supported, in part, by an Encore grant from the American Composers Forum.    

(Follow this link for a review of the Paris premiere of Fallen Eve on ConcertoNet.com: Dreams and Utopias ....) 

• Fancywork at the University of Akron:

  Guitarist Matt Gould and violinist Beth Ilana Schneider, better known as Duo46, will perform a "Music of the Americas" recital at the UA Guzzetta Hall on Sunday, November 19 at 3:00 PM. This American ensemble, specialists in music by living composers, will feature music composed for them by Daniel Asia, Jorge Liderman and Geoffrey Gordon in addition to several tangos by Astor Piazzolla. The focal point of the concert features a newly commissioned piece, Fancywork - inspired by the late 19th-century American arts movement. This composition by Geoffrey Gordon was made possible through a generous grant from the Barlow Foundation. Rounding out the program will be several tangos by Astor Piazzolla, which traces the evolution of this genre.

   
• LCM Artists Management is pleased to announce that  Lorca Musica       per cello solo will be featured on  Fresh Ink, a one hour radio program produced by the Society for New Music, and hosted by SNM Program Advisor, Neva Pilgrim.  Fresh Ink can be heard Sunday afternoons beginning at 2:00 PM on Classic FM, WCNY-FM 91.3 Syracuse, WUNY-FM 89.5 Utica and WJNY 90.9 Watertown, or on the web. Live performances of Lorca next season will include concerts by cellist Elizabeth Morrow (who commissioned the work), at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on 19 October, and the following week, on 28 October, at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. An additional performance will take place at the Felice Evaristo Dall'Abaco Music Conservatory in Verona, Italy on 31 October, 2006.  

 

• LCM Artists Management is pleased to announce that Oeuvre, a Melbourne-based publication dedicated to advancing the careers of emerging composers from around the world, will feature several of Geoffrey Gordon's works in their New Voices forum. Look for Fallen Eve to be featured this summer, with additional works to follow.                            

 

• Geoffrey Gordon is featured on the cover of M Magazine, for the month of May, 2006.  Follow the link to read the story, Composer in the House, by Laurie Arendt.

 

• Echoes of Ferrara, for recorder and harpsichord, to be featured in the July, 2006, online edition of the Oregon Literary Review. Follow the link for the   score and a recording of the premiere of this work commissioned by the American Composers Forum.  This work is also scheduled to be published by Peacock Press, in the UK, in 2007.

 

 

• The MAVrick Ensemble to perform Bright White Smooth, at the Beverly Center for the Arts, Chicago, 12 May, 2006, as part of the Music and the Search for Meaning concert series, sponsored by the Chicago Composers Forum. 

 

 

• LCM Artists Management is pleased to announce the European premiere of Fancywork.  Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for the guitar and violin ensemble Duo46, Fancywork--inspired by the visual arts movement of 19th c. America--will premiere on 16 July, 2006, as part of the Cortona Contemporary Music Festival, in Cortona, Italy. Details about the US premiere to follow.

 

 

• LCM Artists Management is pleased to announce performance details for Echoes of Ferrara, a new work commissioned by the American Composers Forum on behalf of the Galhano/Montgomery Duo, for recorder and harpsichord. The new work will premiere in Minneapolis on March 10 and 11, and in Boston on March 18 and 19, 2006.  There will also be a master class and discussion of the work on March 10, at the historic Schubert Club in Minneapolis.  A similar program is planned for the Longy School of Music Composition in Boston on March 17th.

   

 

• Geoffrey Gordon is the winner of the inaugural Katherine A. Abelson Fund of the Lester S. Abelson Foundation Commission Prize, organized by the Chicago Composers Forum.  The new work, Fallen Eve, for mezzo soprano with mixed chamber ensemble, after texts by Ted Hughes, will premiere, in Chicago, during the 2005-06 season of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Details to be announced.  Additional performances, in Paris and Washington, DC, will be featured as part of a collaboration between Ensemble Aleph and the Contemporary Music Forum, in early 2006.

 

 

• LCM Artists Management is pleased to announce that Stanza della Segnatura, a multi movement work for two recorders, viola da gamba and harpsichord,  inspired by the Raphael frescoes in the Vatican papal apartments, and premiered by the British chamber ensemble Passacaglia (for whom it was commissioned) during their US debut tour in March, 2004, will be published by UK-based Peacock Press, in September, 2005. Mr. Gordon is delighted to have his work associated with Peacock Press and Recorder Music Mail, leaders in early music and new music publishing. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

 

 

• LCM Artists Management is pleased to announce that Interiors of a Courtyard, a multi movement work for guitar and mandolin, inspired by the works of 19th century Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi, will be published by Wolfhead Music, as part of its Mandolin Project 2005-06.  We are delighted to have Mr. Gordon's work associated with Wolfhead Music Publishing, and look forward to a late summer publication date. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

 

 

• LCM Artists Management is pleased to announce composer Geoffrey Gordon has been awarded a 2004 Barlow Endowment commission.  After reviewing more than 130 applications from around the world, the judging panel awarded eleven commissions, including one for Mr. Gordon, who will write a new work for the Cyprus-based Duo46, a guitar and violin ensemble, in residence at Eastern Mediterranean University, renowned for their commitment to new music.  Fancywork will premiere in the US and Europe during the 2005 season.  More details to follow.