Daniel Gordon: musician in Leeds

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Performance experience

Daniel Gordon: summary of performance experience

Premieres etc.:

Philip Wilby	Rosenthal-Paganini Variations (2004) (clarinet and piano)	Wigmore Hall, with Liz Jordan, November 2004
Philip Wilby	"Cyrano" (tuba and piano)	Leeds Metropolitan University, as part of Black Dyke Festival, with Joseph Cook (Principal Tuba), April 2008
Alan Richardson	Three Birthday pieces for Leon Goossens (oboe and piano)	Leeds University, with Jonathan Tobutt (oboe), March 2013
[Alan Richardson	Sonata for oboe and piano	Leeds University, with Jonathan Tobutt (oboe), March 2013]: first known performance since Richardson's death in 1978.
[Alan Richardson	Sonata after Paganini; Memento; Rhapsodic study; Pastoral Sketch] - unpublished solo piano works, discovered at the Royal Academy of Music in 2010; possibly performed by Richardson but not since. (No performances registered by the PRS).	Leeds University, April 2013
[York Bowen	Variations and fugue on an Unoriginal Theme, op. 62 (piano solo)] - first known performance since Bowen himself played the work at the Royal Academy of Music in 1954.	Leeds University, February 2011 (the 50th Anniversary year of York Bowen's death)
Tom Coppin	Song with Dan, for acoustic guitar and piano	Leeds University, May 2013
Mic Spencer	Message from Aiwass X (on his horoscope), for solo piano	Ripon Cathedral, October 2011
David Baker	Sonata for viola and piano	Howard Assembly Rooms, Opera North [First recording], with Liz Wyly (viola), July 2011
David Baker	Sonata for clarinet and piano	Howard Assembly Rooms, Opera North [First recording], with John Mellor (clarinet), July 2011
David Baker	Sonata for violin and piano	Howard Assembly Rooms, Opera North [First recording], with Cathy Baker (violin), December 2010
Kazuhiko Koyama	"Memory", for euphonium and piano	Doyen Recordings [First recording], with Sotaro Fukaishi, March 2005. Peel Hall, Salford.
Nigel Morgan	"Treeness" (viola and chamber organ)	Wakefield Cathedral, with HengChing Fang, July 2008

Accompanying (selection):

Wigmore Hall (Albi Rosenthal memorial concert, 2004): Liz Jordan, Pippa Hyde and Leslie Flanagan;
Regular pianist for violinist and leading scholar on 19th-century performance practice, Prof. Clive Brown: recitals and lecture-recitals at Bristol University, Bretton Hall etc.;
Regular pianist for Joseph Cook, Black Dyke's youngest ever principal tubist (Durham University, Leeds International Chamber series, Durham City chamber series, etc.);
Regular duo work with the soprano Hilary Thomas, violist HengChing Fang and others;
Performances with up to 20 different students each week in university performance classes;
Accompanied Vadim Tsibulevsky's first recital in the UK;
Many other soloists accompanied in a wide range of repertoire;
Organ and piano accompaniment for several Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus concerts, and similar...
Piano accompaniment for Huddersfield Choral Society performances.

Solo recitals (selection):

Russia and beyond: Russian work, alongside pieces from some nearby countries which under former Russian influence but maintaining a national artistic identity: Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Romania (piano, 2017)
Russian Romantic Transformations: music reworked in various ways by Russian composers (piano, 2016);
Post-war British music by Kenneth Leighton (the Five Studies) and contemporaries who'd settled in the UK as refugees from Nazi Germany (piano, 2013).
The piano "in perpetuum mobile": works by Berkeley, Delius, Faure, Tveitt, Rachmaninov, Mompou, Chopin/Godowsky, and York Bowen. (2012)
The Well-Tempered Klavier, complete in one day, arranged by character/season, and played on clavichord, piano and chamber organ (2011).
Romantic piano fugues: works by Reger, Dohnanyi, York Bowen, Roussel, Hindemith, Bach/Godowsky. (2011)
Edwardian organ music: works by Edwin Lemare and Alfred Hollins, Ripon Cathedral (2010).
"1000 years of English Counterpoint" - Lecture-recital given as the President's Day event for the Leeds Organists' Association This included music from every century from the 10th to the 21st. (2008).
Recital of English music for chamber organ, on the Goetze and Gwynn instrument at Leeds (modelled on an instrument built in England for Handel). (2008).
Organ recitals at Ripon Cathedral and Leeds Catholic Cathedral (2007);
Mixed keyboard recital at Leeds University, demonstrating a variety of Bach performance practices on chamber organ, harpsichord, and piano (2005).

Recordings:

Music for euphonium and piano, by Gordon Jacob, Jan Bach. et. al., with euphonium soloist Sotaro Fukaishi (Doyen CD, 2005)
Nigel Morgan's "Treeness", for viola and chamber organ, with violist HengChing Fang (A-R Editions, 2008)
David Baker's compositions (in progress - see above).
Various recordings for performance Ph.D.s

Concerto performances:

Grieg - piano concerto, with Orchestra of Square Chapel, Halifax (OSCH) (2011);
Schmidt - Fuga Solemnis, for organ and brass, with the LUUMS (Leeds University Union Music Society) Symphony Orchestra Leeds Town Hall (2011);
Saint-Saens - "Organ" symphony (no. 3), with the LUUMS Symphony Orchestra, Leeds Town Hall (2009);
Handel - organ concerto, op. 2 no. 4, with Leeds Baroque Orchestra, conductor Peter Holman (2007);
Beethoven - piano concerto no. 1, with OSCH (2003);
Shostakovitch - piano concerto no. 1, with OSCH (2002);
Bach - Brandenburg concerto no. 5 (harpsichord solo), with OSCH (2001), and with Balcombe Place orchestra (BPO) (1984)
Saint-Saens - Carnival of the animals (piano, with Ian Buckle), with OSCH (2003)
Mozart - Flute concerto in G major, with BPO (1982)
Bach - Suite in B minor (flute solo), with BPO (1983)
Bach - Brandenburg concerti: All keyboard and flute solo roles in the Brandenburgs, with BPO (various times)
[Grieg - Piano concerto (first movement), with Ardingly College orchestra (1984)]

Ensemble performances (selection):

Pianist and organist with Black Dyke Band: Radio 3 performance (2005, RNCM festival of brass); Gala concerts at Symphony Hall and Bridgewater Hall.
Organ and harpsichord continuo with Manchester Camerata, and Skipton Camerata (various recent dates)
Continuo and orchestral piano with English Northern Philharmonia (Paul Daniel), Northern Ballet Orchestra (Brian Kay), Leeds Baroque Orchestra (Peter Holman), et. al.
Pianist for the Leeds University Centre for Historically Informed Performance: Performed trios by Beethoven, Mendelsohn, Spohr, Gade and Brahms.

Conducting and chorusmastering:

Rehearsed Huddersfield Choral Society, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, and other leading choral societies;
Music director of the Leeds NHS choir;
Supervised Leeds Festival Chorus during for the Radio 3 broadcast of Busoni's piano concerto;
Conducted the NHS regional service at Durham Cathedral.

As a rehearsal pianist to many of the finest choral societies in England, I have:

been recorded on BBC Radio 2, Radio 4, ITV (South Bank Show) and BBC Radio Leeds;
played, in place of the orchestra, for Jane Glover, Mark Elder, Sir Edward Downes, Vassili Sinaisky, Nicholas Kraemer, Martin Brabbins, Brian Kay, Owain Arwel Hughes, Gianandreda Noseda, Vassili Petrenko, and many other well-known conductors.

Significant non-professional experience:

Very experienced choral singer and soloist (Westminster Abbey Choir, 1974-9, senior chorister 1979);
Various chapel and Oxford college and chamber choirs (1980 - 1987);
Leeds Festival Chorus and other leading choral societies (1993 - 2007);
A wide range of amateur orchestral experience, mainly as timpanist and percussionist (played for Jonathan Del Mar for several years), but also on flute and double bass;
Much solo and chamber music performed on flute;
Experienced page turner: regular for Radio 3 broadcasts from Leeds Lieder (recent) and Westminster Abbey organ recitals (1970's). Turned for Howard Shelley, Alan Schiller, Roger Vignoles, Iain Burnside, et. al.

Please e-mail any requests or comments about this site to us at our home address, if you have it. Otherwise please use Daniel's university address, D.R.H.Gordon@leeds.ac.uk. Thank you.

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