Orlando Gough

Quick Facts

Full Name	Orlando Gough
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Aug 24, 1953(1953-08-24)
Age	71
Birthplace	Brighton
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Leo

Orlando Gough Biography

Orlando Gough is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on August 24, 1953 in Brighton, England, United Kingdom. Orlando Gough (/’ Gough a f / ; born in 1953 at Brighton, Sussex) is a British composer who was educated at Oxford and renowned for his ballet-related projects contemporary dance, theatre and ballet. The collaborators have included Siobhan Davis, Alain Platel, Shobana Jeyasingh, and Ashley Page of The Royal Ballet. He is the artistic director at The Shout, which he created in 1998 along together with Richard Chew. The group was awarded The Time Out Award for Classical Artist of the Year in 2001. The album was titled Message from the Border that was released by Catalyst/BMG Records. The 2001 project he received from Fretwork called ‘Birds On Fire’, was recorded by the band for Harmonia Mundi with the same title . It was released in the year 2008. The music was composed by him for the ceremony that concluded The 2008 European Capital of Culture, Stavanger. Choir members comprise Carol Grimes, Melanie Pappenheim and Manickam Yogeswaran. In 2010, the Turner Contemporary commissioned Gough to compose a piece for their opening ceremony: “The Red Volcano” composed for the community choir as well as an orchestra. It had its World premiere in April of 2011 and was led by Anthony Castro.

In 2011, two drummers performed Transmission at HMS Belfast using the vessel in some components as instruments. The piece is a duet performed in the style of snare drums used by military and runs for about five minutes. The world premiere took place in conjunction with the Thames Festival 2011 on 10 September.

In 2012 the world premiere for XX Scharnhorst was performed on HMS Belfast on 8 September 2012 again as part of the Thames Festival. The piece is inspired by the Battle of North Cape where the German battleship Scharnhorst sunk by Royal Navy warships, including HMS Belfast. The piece is formed of six parts: Leaving, Drill, Listening to the Ship, Lullaby, Battle, and Aftermath. It lasts about 30 minutes including the approximately five-minute-long battle scene. As in Transmission, HMS Belfast is used in XX Scharnhorst in some of the drumming as an instrument (Drill, Battle). The songs sung by the women’s choir are two hybrid songs. The first is based on Gracie Fields’ “Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye” and the Russian song “Katyusha” (Leaving). The second is based on Vera Lynn’s “White Cliffs of Dover” and a Georgian lullaby “Nana” (Lullaby). It also includes two German songs “Ich hab die Nacht geträumet” (Listening to the Ship) and “Auf einem Seemannsgrab” (Aftermath). The performances included the Bluebird Chorus, the Deutscher Chor London (dir. Barbara Höfling) and a group of percussionists from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music and directed by Emma Barnard.

Gough’s opera-related music comprises The Mathematics of a Kiss (a 1989 short television opera composed by him and his Man Jumping collaborator John Lunn), Critical Mass (2007 Almeida Operetta) and The Finnish Prisoner (premiered in 2007 by a cast comprising people from Finnish National Opera). In 2010, Gough was asked to compose an opera in the form of a short for the ROH2 OperaShots initiative. The outcome is A Ring a lamp a thing that has a libretto composed by Caryl Churchill.

Orlando Gough Net Worth

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

Gough first became famous in his place on the British world of music in the early 1980s when he was co-founder of the minimalist-oriented music group The Lost Jockey. The group was initially formed to play the work of composers of’systems music’ like Steve Reich and Philip Glass. But, over time, it began to perform compositions composed by the group’s own composers of which Gough was among those who was the busiest. In live performances (as as well as in the BBC Radio broadcast) he performed with keyboards, pianos, and tuned drums. Around 1984 , the ever-growing (and ever more difficult to manage) group was reduced to a septet dubbed Man Jumping, again featuring Gough who wrote many compositions for their critically acclaimed two albums.

Gough is a graduate of mathematics who wrote the book in 1987 The Complete Advanced Level Mathematics. His wife is a knitwear maker Joanna Osborne, co- author of numerous knitting books, as well as two boys: Daniel as well as Milo. He has two brothers, architect Piers Gough as well as Adam Jamie Gough, an academic at the University of Sheffield.

In 2011 and 2012 Gough wrote Transmission 2011 and XX Scharnhorst which had been commissioned as part of a two-year project by the Thames Festival Trust. Both of them are site specific to HMS Belfast.

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Orlando Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Orlando Gough celebrates birthday on August 24 of every year.