Michael Zev Gordon

Michael Zev Gordon‘s current projects include a new chamber opera, The Fall of Icarus, a string quartet for the Bozzini Quartet and a work for voice and electronics for bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood. Gordon’s works have been performed by many internationally leading performers, including the London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He twice received commission from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and has twice won the choral category of the British Composer Awards, a Prix Italia for his radiophonic work A Pebble in the Pond. His piano music portrait disc On Memory was in The Times top 10 contemporary CDs in its year of issue. Gordon has been Professor of Composition at the University of Birmingham since 2012.