Michael Gordon

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Full Name	Michael Gordon
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jul 20, 1956(1956-07-20)
Age	68
Birthplace	Miami Beach
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Cancer

Michael Gordon Biography

Michael Gordon is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on July 20, 1956 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. American composer and founding member of the Bang on a Can contemporary classical music collective and festival. Bang on a Can focuses on the presentation of new concert music, and has presented hundreds of musical events worldwide.

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Michael Gordon (born July 20, 1956) is an American composer and co-founder of the Bang on a Can music collective and festival.

Since 1991 he has worked extensively with video. His work Van Gogh Video Opera, a collaboration with video-artist Elliott Caplan, was premiered to critical acclaim in New York in 1991 and received its European premiere in Vienna in 1992. Other works with Caplan include Grand Dairy, based on a diner on New York’s Lower East Side, which was produced in Vienna in 1996, and Weather (German Tour 1997), in which the 16 string players of Ensemble Resonanz perform on a vertical stage surrounded by video panels. The recording of Weather is available on Arthrob/Nonesuch Records. In 1997 he also worked with playwright Anna Deavere Smith on House Arrest, First Edition, which premiered at the Arena Stage Theater in Washington, DC.

He founded Bang on a Can with his wife, fellow composer Julia Wolfe.

Michael Gordon Net Worth

Michael Gordon is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Gordon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michael Gordon was born in Florida and grew up in Nicaragua before moving to Miami Beach at age eight. His musical style has been influenced by his experience of underground bands in New York City as well as his formal musical training at Yale University.

Two of his notable works include the opera The Carbon Copy Building, a collaboration with comic book artist Ben Katchor that received the 2000 Village Voice Obie Award for Best New American Work and Shelter, a multi-media work that was commissioned by the musikFabrik ensemble and features the Scandinavian vocalists Trio Mediaeval.

Michael Gordon was born in Florida on July 20, 1956, and grew up in Nicaragua and on the outskirts of Managua in an Eastern European Jewish community before moving to Miami Beach at age eight.

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According to our records, Michael Gordon married to Julia Wolfe. As of December 1, 2023, Michael Gordon’s is not dating anyone.

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The recipient of multiple awards and grants, Gordon has been honored by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Formed in 1983 as the “Michael Gordon Philharmonic” and renamed the “Michael Gordon Band” in 2000, Gordon’s own ensemble has performed across Europe and the United States at venues as diverse as Alice Tully Hall and the punk mecca CBGB, on the Contemporary Music Network Tour, and at the Almeida Festival in London. In September 2016 Gordon was named the first-ever composer-in-residence of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

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A further project is Shelter, a multi-media work that was commissioned by the ensemble musikFabrik and features the Scandinavian vocalists Trio Mediaeval in a staged spectacle that, in the words of librettist Deborah Artman, “evokes the power and threat of nature, the soaring frontier promise contained in the framing of a new house, the pure aesthetic beauty of blueprints, the sweet architecture of sound and the uneasy vulnerability that underlies even the safety of our sleep.” Shelter was premiered in Cologne in Germany in spring 2005, and received its US premiere in November 2005.

Who was Michael Gordon?

Michael Gordon
Born| July 20, 1956 Miami Beach, Florida
Nationality| American
Alma mater| New York University Yale University
Occupation| Composer, Professor of Music

Where is Michael R Gordon now?

Gordon has been a national security correspondent for The Wall Street Journal since October 2017. Previously, he was a military and diplomacy correspondent for The New York Times for 32 years.

Is Michael Gordon alive?

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