Jon Gibson
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JON GIBSON is a composer, multi-wind instrumentalist and visual artist who has taken part in numerous landmark musical events over the past four decades, performing in the early works of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, and Philip Glass with whom he continues to perform in various configurations along with a host of other musicians, choreographers and artists including Merce Cunningham, Nancy Topf, Lucinda Childs, Elaine Summers, Tania Mouraud, JoAnne Akalaitis, Simone Forti, Elisabetta Vittoni, Thomas Buckner, Harold Budd, David Behrman, The Downtown Ensemble, SEM Ensemble, Relasche, Ne(x)tworks, Frederick Rzewski, and Moacir Santos. His own solo and ensemble music has been performed by himself and others in many venues throughout the world. Recent activities include an ongoing collaboration with Nina Winthrop and Dancers, scoring and performing the music for dances entitled Stalling Into Elation, Stir, Three Lives and Something, Prism, Exissensuelle, Cumulus and more recently Thats Me- Im The One Lying down Over There. Other recent activities include a CD on the Tzadik label (Criss X Cross), and music for the documentary, Transformation: Building the RMA (Rubin Museum of Art). Gibsons opera, Violet Fire, composed in collaboration with librettist Miriam Seidel, is about the inventor Nicola Tesla. Under the direction of Terry OReilley, it received it's world premiere in Belgrade, Serbia in July '06 and its Ameican premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in October '06. Gibson has received grants from the New York State Council for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Meet the Composer and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. His music can be heard on the Tzadik, Orange Mountain Music, New Tone, Point Music, Lovely Music, EarRational Records and Einstein Records labels. As a performer he appears on recordings by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Alvin Curran, Frederick Rzewski, Arthur Russell, Barbara Benary, Harold Budd, Annea Lockwood, Peter Zummo, David Behrman, Garrett List, Randy Raine-Reusch and Robert Ashley. His visual work, which is closely related to his work in music, manifests itself in various media, including drawings, videos, books and prints, and has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. Click Here for Jon Gibson homepage. | |