Michael Zev Gordon
@MZevGordon
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Joined October 2012
My new work for the wonderful @BrittenSinfonia - A Kind of Haunting for two narrators, baritone and string orchestra - is on @BBCRadio3 ‘Live in Concert’ tonight at 7.30pm, and then for 30 days on @BBCSounds. Do catch it if you can.
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I’ll be on BBC Radio 4 ‘PM’ between 5 and 6pm today, 14 March, talking about my new work for Britten Sinfonia - ‘A Kind of Haunting’. Do tune in if you can!
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The composer Michael Zev Gordon explains how a traumatic trip to Poland to uncover his grandfather’s story inspired a highly charged new work ⬇️
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The composer Michael Zev Gordon explains how a traumatic trip to Poland to uncover his grandfather’s story inspired a highly charged new work
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I'm privileged to play my part in Holocaust Memorial Day (@HMD_UK) with an interview for @DeutscheWelle news - https://t.co/DkQHEcGtTf - talking about my family's story and my new composition to come out of it, 'A Kind of Haunting' (@BrittenSinfonia, @BarbicanCentre, 25 March)
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Many Holocaust victims were not murdered in concentration camps, but killed by Nazis in mass shootings elsewhere. The Polish organization Zapomniane wants to keep the memory of what's known as the...
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It was an absolute treat, wasn’t it @RoyalPhilSoc!? Such sublime playing from the @PiattiQuartet, performing three fantastic new works by @JosephPhibbs, @MZevGordon and Richard Blackford. Magical! ✨️
A real treat to hear @PiattiQuartet twice during @PresteigneFest, giving the premiere of engaging new works by @JosephPhibbs, @MZevGordon and Richard Blackford alongside music by Britten, Moeran and Mendelssohn. Such focussed, communicative playing. 📷 Bleddfa and Presteigne
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A 5-star review for ‘The Impermanence of Things’, by @MZevGordon in @MusicMagazine ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Right from the initial two-note figure, through the alternately dancing and stomping scherzo, to the finale, it is utterly gripping" Full review 👇 https://t.co/7Dp6d0cEAO
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I’m thrilled to announce that a new album of my piano works, ‘Diary Pieces’, will be released as a CD and on-line (Spotify etc) on @resonusclassics on 9 December. Joseph Houston plays these short, sometimes tiny, pieces wonderfully sensitively. Do hope you enjoy them.
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I'm delighted Paul and Huw Watkins are playing my Roseland in their @Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert at the start of 2023, Monday 2nd January at 1pm. Do come if you can. The concert is also being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Michael BOOK TICKETS: https://t.co/fZdjWga3k6...
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Thank you Kate - and to all those who came to support the opera. And a thousand more thanks to the incredible, inspiring singers, conductor, ensemble, director, designers and team who made it all possible.
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Wonderful experience of watching an amazing group of people bring my opera Raising Icarus to life over the past four weeks. Premiere tonight at @BirminghamRep 7.30-9.30pm. Do come!
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Now in full rehearsals for my new opera, Raising Icarus. Amazing singers with tireless commitment. A great honour to work with them. Première at @BirminghamRep with @BCMG conducted by Natalie Murray Beale, April 28-30. Do come!
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Do catch my interview with @thordison on the autobiography slot on https://t.co/7pZTZuvAn7 at 7.20pm Mon 29 Nov, Wed 1 Dec, Thur 2 Dec and on @RadioCambridge website
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Listen live to Radio Cambridgeshire on BBC Sounds
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Do come Friday 29th Oct, 2pm to Cardiff's @bbchoddinott, where wonderful @carolinwidmann is playing my Violin Concerto with @BBCNOW and Catherine Larsen-Maguire, alongside works by Grime and Goehr. The concert will be in @BBCNOW's Digital Concerto series. https://t.co/LlH2fBCMXV
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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform throughout Wales, the UK and internationally.
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A great pleasure to have gone into the @RoyalAcadMusic today and hear a new oboe piece of mine, Into the Rose Garden. The oboist was the very talented Luiz de Campos, and it was part of a wonderful concert of chamber music. See it at: https://t.co/ofaSS2VhRH
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UK Parliament: 2nd Covid Vaccine should be 21 /28 Days NOT 12 Weeks. Challenge the U.K. Government! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/JduPcPKjjT via @UKChange
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Delighted that my new commission for @OxfordLieder - Baruch, Ten Propositions of Baruch Spinoza - will be premiered tomorrow by the wonderful James Gilchrist and @AnnaTilbrook. Do catch the live-stream at: https://t.co/DtL6XQBBf2
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So pleased for my new disc to be listed in the @thetimes 'Best 100 records of 2019'. Enormous thanks to @fideliotrio @Julian__Bliss and @resonusclassics for making this happen.
Listed in the @thesundaytimes 'Best 100 albums of 2019' 👏😃🎶 @fideliotrio @Julian__Bliss @MZevGordon Shop now at -> https://t.co/ZAJFWDUKQ2
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Following concert last Saturday in Kraków, another one tonight in Amsterdam with the fabulous singer Nicholas Isherwood, part of his Electric Voice tour https://t.co/PvXZVoqenj
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