Judith Gordon
Associate Professor of Music
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Judith Gordon gave her debut recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990. She has performed concertos by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, and Ravel with the Boston Pops Orchestra, and works by Bach,Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Hindemith, Berg, and Boulez with ensembles that include St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. She has worked with a wide range of living composers, among them Martin Brody, Peter Child, Alan Fletcher, John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Peter Lieberson, and Donald Wheelock, almost all of whom have written works for her. In 1997 she was selected by the Boston Globe as "Musician of the Year." She joined the Smith College music faculty in 2006.
In addition to her Smith and Five College colleagues, Ms. Gordon has collaborated in performance and on recordings with artists including singers Lisa Saffer, Janice Felty, Mary Nessinger, Krista River, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, William Hite, and James Maddalena; cellists Andres Diaz, Rhonda Rider, and Yo-Yo Ma; violists Cynthia Phelps, Marcus Thompson, and Roger Tapping; violinists Rose Mary Harbison and Andrew Kohji Taylor; flutists Fenwick Smith and Adam Kuenzel; Imani Winds, the Jacques Thibaud String Trio, and the Borromeo, Daedalus, and Lydian String Quartets.
Ms. Gordon, who studied with Patricia Zander at the New England Conservatory of Music and received the school's Outstanding Alumni Award in 2009, performs and teaches regularly at music festivals in Bennington, Vermont, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Token Creek, Wisconsin. In Washington County, New York, she is an Artistic Co-Director of 'Music from Salem'.
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| Third Party Lee Hyla |
| Judith Gordon, piano |
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| Concerto in G Major Maurice Ravel |
| Judith Gordon, piano |
| Nashua Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Schiffman, conductor |
Ms. Gordon also maintains an active page on soundcloud.
