Richard Gibson (composer) explained

Richard Gibson
Birth Date:	13 December 1953
Birth Place:	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Genre:	Classical
Occupation:	composer, educator

Richard Gibson (born December 13, 1953) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, and Professor of Composition at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick.^[1]

He is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre,^[2] and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.^[3]

Gibson has also been active as a producer for classical recordings. One of these – the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra's Forbidden City Tour CD – won an East Coast Music Award (ECMA) in 2008 for Classical Recording of the Year.^[4]

Education

• B.Mus., Dalhousie University (Steve Tittle, composition)
• M.Mus., University of Western Ontario (Peter Paul Koprowski, composition)
• PhD, King's College London (David Lumsdaine, composition)

Awards

• 1983 – First Prize, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) competition for young composers
• 1992 – New Brunswick Award for Excellence in Arts

Compositions

Solo works

• Nightingales for Katy (flute) 1982
• Cantilena (guitar) 1984
• Sonate (saxophone) 1984
• Resonances (percussion) 1985
• Sept Miniatures (guitar) 1986
• Hemispheres (bass guitar) 1987
• Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace (piano) 1987
• 25 Préludes (piano) 1996
• Cora (percussion) 2000
• Lepidoptera (piano) 2002
• You gotta move (trumpet) 2002
• Julia – Variaciones sobre un tema de Juan Lennon (guitar) 2013

Chamber works

• Les Îles (12 brass) 1976
• Oboe Piece (oboe, piano) 1976
• Free Flight I (trumpet, fixed media) 1977
• What? Not Another Dance! (3 percussion) 1977
• Oboe Metamorphosis (oboe, fixed media) 1978
• Capriccio (flute, 4 percussion) 1979
• Pattern Music (bass guitar, 2 synthesizers) 1980
• Jazz Poems (5 jazz players, live electronics) 1981
• Free Flight II (trumpet, double bass, percussion) 1983
• Passacaille (violin, piano) 1988
• Changing Perspectives (string quartet) 1990
• The Mindfulness of Breathing (4 tubas) 1990
• Conversation Piece (flute, oboe, bass clarinet, trumpet, piano) 1991
• Neuf Cartes Postales de Cornwall (violin, viola) 1992
• Les Cloches de Kastelli (4 percussion) 1994
• Montañas del Fuego (clarinet, percussion) 1995
• Seven Pieces (bass clarinet, piano) 1995
• Le Barachois (violin, cello, piano) 1996
• Canzona (11 brass) 1997
• Éloges pour Han-Shen (4 percussion) 1998
• April Remembered (violin, double bass) 1999
• Mouvement Polyphonique (3 trombones, piano) 2001
• Guitar Quartet (4 guitars) 2002

Vocal works

• Glistenin' Whistle (mixed chorus, flute, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, guitar, violin, bass guitar, percussion) 1976
• Parfums Exotiques (soprano, flute, cello, piano) 1976
• Beatus Vir (mixed chorus) 1987
• Hidden Rivers (soprano, piano) 1987
• The Gravity of Earth (speaker, synthesizers, percussion, string orchestra, live electronics) 1988
• Nisi Dominus (soloists, 4 choruses, orchestra) 1989
• Remembering a Woman's Voice (soprano, cello) 1990
• White Pearls (baritone, clarinet, French horn, cello, percussion) 1991
• Cinq Poèmes de Raymond Guy Leblanc (soprano, lute, 4 percussion, string quartet) 1993
• Transfigured Autumn (mixed chorus, small orchestra) 1993
• For Daniel (tenor, piano) 1995
• Trois Chants Klingons (soprano, 4 flutes, synthesizer, 2 percussion, live electronics) 1995
• Poème du Mois de Juillet (soloists, speaker, mixed chorus, 9 percussion) 1999

Works for large ensemble

• Synchrony (symphonic band) 1978
• Concerto (trombone, orchestra) 1982
• Mantras (youth orchestra) 1987
• Musique Solennelle (small orchestra) 1987
• November Music (14 strings) 1990
• Étude Chromatique (symphonic band) 1994
• Sinfonietta (symphonic band) 1994
• Symphony (orchestra) 1994
• A Festive Overture (orchestra) 2000
• Neo-Baroque Suite (youth string orchestra) 2002

Discography

• Et + Ke 2 – Amerythme (Atlantica Musique 02002) – 1994 (contains Les Cloches de Kastelli for 4 percussion)
• Canadian Music for Clarinet – James Mark, clarinet – 1999 (contains Montañas Del Fuego for clarinet and percussion)
• Nightingales for Katy – Karin Aurell, flute – 2005 (contains Nightingales for Katy for flute)
• Piano Atlantica – Barbara Pritchard, piano (Centrediscs CMC CD 15210) – 2010 (contains Variation and excerpts from 25 Préludes)
• Richard Boulanger joue Richard Gibson – musique pour piano seul – 2015 (contains Le 24 décembre 2004, Lepidoptera, 24 Notes, 25 Préludes (excerpts), Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace, and Sarabande)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Richard Gibson – The Living Composers Project. Albertson. Dan. Hannah. Ron. www.composers21.com. November 10, 2017.
2. Web site: Richard Gibson: Biography Canadian Music Centre Centre de Musique Canadienne. musiccentre.ca. en. November 10, 2017.
3. Web site: Richard Gibson Canadian League of Composers. www.composition.org. en-CA. November 10, 2017.
4. Web site: Festival – Awards Archive – East Coast Music Association. ecma.com. November 10, 2017.