Orlando Gough
Leslie Mathew Orlando Gough ( born August 24, 1953 in Brighton, Sussex ) is a British composer.
Life
Orlando Gough attended the London Harrow School and was there from 1969 to 1970 the school's cricket team. He studied mathematics at Oxford, worked as a teacher and wrote in 1987 a math textbook: The Complete Advanced Level Mathematics. He is married to Joanna Osborne, has two sons and lives in Brighton.
Gough is a self-taught as a composer, he plays piano, keyboard and drums. He started in the early 80s in the bands The Lost Jockey and Man Jumping their successors, who performed for the minimalist music of Steve Reich and Philip Glass interested and increasingly his own compositions. With composer Richard Chew 1998 he founded the choir The Shout, who received the " Time Out Award for Classical Artist" in 2001. Gough has written music for the ballet, modern dance and the theater. His works include Tall Stories (2001), composed with Chew, a song cycle for chorus on immigration in New York at the beginning of the 20th century. He wrote the dance piece Just Add Water? with choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, for the Royal Ballet to the music Saeta. In the theater of the world in Stuttgart in 2005, he led the port Concert The Singing River, for 12 choirs, 18 boats, two cranes and a locomotive ( choreography for ships, cranes and five hundred singers ) on, the oratorio The Most Beautiful Man From The Sea for the Welsh National Opera, We Turned on The Light for the Proms. On behalf of the British opera houses he designed the children's play On the Rim Of The World. For the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall in 2007, he staged a choral music. From the European Capital of Culture 2008 Stavanger, he was awarded the contract for the music for the closing party with 500 choir singers. New Year's Eve of that year, he brought his Rocket Symphony in the opening fireworks Capital of Culture Linz 2009 performance.
Gough has composed the music for a number of films, so with John Lunn for The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998).
Nitin Sawhney, Jocelyn Pook and he got a job in 2010 at the Royal Opera House for one short opera, Caryl Churchill wrote to him the libretto for A ring a lamp a thing. He composed Transmission 2011 and XX Scharnhorst, both pieces were written for a performance at the decommissioned warship HMS Belfast and were listed as part of the Thames Festival 2011 and 2012. In addition to two choirs of the hull acted as a sounding body for a group of percussionists. For 2013, Gough has worked with Susannah Waters and Stephen Plaice opera Imago for the Glyndebourne Festival.
Works (selection)
- Rocket Symphony, 2009
- The Finnish Opera, 2007
- Caryl Churchill, Orlando Gough: Hotel: in a room anything can happen; 13 singers, two dancers, three instrumentalists and eight rooms in a hotel. Hern, London 1997.