Ricky Ian Gordon


Ricky Ian Gordon
Nationality: American
Born: b. 1956
Education/Training: composition at Carnegie Mellon University
Best Known For: writing for concert hall, opera, dance, theater and film
Notable Compositions:
Orpheus and Euridice, premiered at Lincoln Center; My Life With Albertine, premiered at New York's Playwrights Horizons

Assignments:
composer-in-residence at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival; commissions for The Metropolitan Opera and the 50th anniversary of the Minnesota Opera with Michael Korie
Notable Recordings:
Orpheus and Euridice, Ghostlight Records

Press:
"..caviar for a world gorging on pizza." -The New York Times

REPERTOIRE: Suite from The Grapes of Wrath

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: We Will Always Walk Together (from Dream True)

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The New Broadway Jun 13, 2004
The New Broadway Jun 15, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Shimmer (from Shimmer)

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The New Broadway Jun 13, 2004
The New Broadway Jun 15, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Balbec by the Sea (from My Life With Albertine)

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The New Broadway Jun 13, 2004
The New Broadway Jun 15, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Souvenir

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The New Broadway Jun 13, 2004
The New Broadway Jun 15, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Finding Home (from Dream True)

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The New Broadway Jun 13, 2004
The New Broadway Jun 15, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Joy

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21st Annual High School Choir Festival Apr 16, 2010

REPERTOIRE: 1. The Last Time There Was Rain

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 2. Us

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 3. The Plenty Road/"Okies"

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 4. The Zephyr/One Star

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 5. Like They Promised

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 6. The Creek

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 7. Square Dance

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 8. The Fire in the Orchard

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 9. Dios te Salve

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 10. The Day The Rain Began

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 11. Little Dead Moses

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: 12. Reprise - Us

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Great Opera Choruses May 18, 2008

REPERTOIRE: New Moon

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Share May 21, 2006

REPERTOIRE: Joy

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The New Broadway Jun 13, 2004

REPERTOIRE: Joy

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The New Broadway Jun 15, 2004

REPERTOIRE: We Will Always Walk Together

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17th Annual High School Choir Festival Mar 20, 2006