Event overview
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Composer David Gorton discusses his latest compositional projects.
In this presentation David Gorton will introduce a selection of his compositions, organised around four thematic preoccupations that have underpinned his compositional thinking for the last ten years: specifically, music and landscape, the use of ‘old’ music, microtonality, and composer-performer collaboration. While these themes will be presented separately, the compositions associated with them are intertwined, suggesting that composition for Gorton is not so much a linear or progressive activity but one that is meandering and multifaceted.
DAVID GORTON first came to public attention in 2001 when he was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize. Commissions followed for ensembles that include the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Exposé, Jane's Minstrels, CHROMA, HERMES, and the Kreutzer Quartet. His compositions have been performed throughout Europe and America, in China, and in Vietnam, and have been recorded on the Métier, Usk, and Toccata Classics labels. Much of his output comprises series of works for solo performers with whom he has built a collaborative relationship over a period of years, including the violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved, cellist Neil Heyde, oboist Christopher Redgate, pianists Zubin Kanga and Roderick Chadwick, and guitar player Stefan Östersjö. David Gorton was a student at Durham University, King’s College London, and the Royal Academy of Music, studying composition with Harrison Birtwistle and Simon Bainbridge. From 2004-06 he held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a compositionally driven project about musical time, structure, and performance. In 2012 he was a visiting researcher at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, and in 2015 was a composer in residence at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. He is a University of London Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Nov 2016 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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