In October 2007 he prepared new dialogue for the Sydney Symphony’s revival of the first Australian opera, Isaac Nathan’s Don John of Austria. From 1999 to 2005, he was editor of programs for Symphony Australia, producing program booklets for roughly 200 concerts per year given by the Sydney Symphony and the Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Tasmanian and West Australian Symphony Orchestras.
In January 2010 he was a Words About Music tutor for the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp. In 2008 he edited Gordon Kerry’s book on Australian music, New Classical Music.
For Symphony Australia Gordon was also project co-ordinator for Music is our Culture, the first work for symphony orchestra written by indigenous Australians (Kiwat, Rotumah, McKenzie, Warusam and Chester Schultz), premiered in the 1998 Telstra Adelaide Festival. He has written narrations for orchestral presentations of Beethoven’s Egmont and Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat and has produced Classic-FM specials for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on indigenous music in the concert hall and American opera. A graduate of the Playwrights Studio of the National Institute of Dramatic Art Sydney, in 1987-8 he worked for Darwin Theatre Group and in 1981 he instigated the position of composer in the community in Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory.
Biography
Gordon wrote the libretto for the cantata Journey to Horseshoe Bend
(composer, Andrew Schultz) based on T.G.H. Strehlow’s autobiographical novel.
Photograph by Angela Turner
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