Timber Remixedwith Mantra Percussion now available on Cantaloupe Music featuring remixes by Squarepusher, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Hauschka, Greg Saunier & more… 2-disc set includes Mantra Percussion’s live recording of Timber from the 2014 Bang on a Can Marathon Also available on limited edition 180g vinyl with six remixes + download card Now […]
Read MoreJuly 29-30, the Britt Music & Arts Festival, presents the world premiere of Michael Gordon’s newest work for orchestra, Natural History, inspired by Crater Lake National Park in Oregon and commissioned by the Britt Orchestra as part of the 100th anniversary of America’s National Park Service. Natural History will premiere the morning of July 29, […]
Read MoreMaterialworld premiereMay 11-12Miller Theatre A new concert-length work for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists; an immersive environment for a uniquely intimate, multisensory series of four portrait concerts over two nights at Columbia University’s legendary new-music mecca! Columbia University’s iconic Miller Theatre presents the next installment of their Portrait concerts on May 11 and 12, with […]
Read MoreMichael Gordon’s mesmerizing concert-length work, Rushes for 7 bassoons, receives its New York City premiere on October 23 at the Park Avenue Armory performed by The Rushes Ensemble. Released last year on Cantaloupe Music, Rushes takes its place alongside Gordon’s Timber for expanding the boundaries of a single instrument’s repertoire into hitherto unknown (and at […]
Read MoreMichael Gordon’s sextet for the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Gene Takes a Drink, is featured in one of the latest batches of “Shot on iPhone” commercials. Purchase track from iTunes here. Rent the performance materials here.
Read MoreWQXR/Q2’s Album of the Weekclick here to stream the album and read their review Michael Gordon’s newest album, Dystopia, which includes Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony (plus an iTunes exclusive, Gotham), includes some of his most ambitious orchestral projects to date. These works are monumental statements of Gordon’s passion for pushing the modern symphony to its […]
Read MoreOn January 30, 2015, Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony premiere the third installment in Gordon’s “city symphonies” for Miami, Florida, after Gotham (New York City) and Dystopia (Los Angeles). Working in collaboration with filmmaker Bill Morrison, Gordon creates music with his own reflections for each city. Miami is special for Gordon — […]
Read MoreOn June 3, John Kennedy and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra present the US Premiere of Michael Gordon’s monumental Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Commissioned by the Beethoven-Bonn Festival and premiered by the Bamberger Symphoniker in 2006, Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony filters one of the classics of the symphonic repertoire through the lens of the 21st-century. Not […]
Read MoreOn March 25, Cantaloupe Music releases Michael Gordon’s latest CD, Rushes. From March 26 – 29, Michael Gordon’s Rushes, for 7 bassoons, goes on tour in the Northeast culminating in a much-anticipated performance at Peak Performances at Montclair State University. March 26: Tufts UniversityMarch 28: Crane Arts CenterMarch 29: Peak Performances Gordon describes the concert-length, […]
Read MoreOn November 14 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the percussionists of the San Francisco Contemporary Players perform Michael Gordon’s acclaimed, hypnotic, epic concert-length work Timber for 6 percussionists. Scored for six graduated, amplified, wooden simantras (2x4s) the work brings the physicality, endurance and technique of percussion performance to a new level. In […]
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