About Me
GORDON BEEFERMAN is a composer, pianist and improviser based in New York City. His works -- orchestral, solo, chamber, and opera -- have been been performed by the New York City Opera Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Quartet New Generation recorder collective, eighth blackbird, pianist Winston Choi, soprano Lisa Bielawa, NYC-based Anti-Social Music and many others. The New York Times wrote of his work: "Complex and daringly modern...Mr. Beeferman’s music, with its skittish melodic lines and pungent atonal harmony, is gritty, fidgety and intriguing." Beeferman has received commissions from the Fromm Foundation, the BMI Foundation, and Concert Artists Guild, and awards from BMI and ASCAP. A "fully liberated pianist" (Cadence Magazine), he has performed in a wide range of settings, from concerto soloist to free-improviser, and has collaborated regularly with dancers and other artists, including Jeff Arnal, Jane Barnes, Charlotte Jackson, Anita Cheng, Seth Misterka, Brad Kemp, Katt Hernandez, and Estelle Woodward. In New York he has performed at Roulette, the Merce Cunningham Studio, Music at the Anthology, Columbia University's Italian Academy and the Improvised and Otherwise Festival, as well as at other venues in Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Canada, and elsewhere. His recordings of improvised music are available on Generate Records. Upcoming in 2008 are premieres of his work by the California E.A.R. Unit and the American Brass Quintet.
