Orlando Gough after the closing ceremony of Stavanger 2008
Orlando Gough (/ɡɒf/GOF;[1] born 1953 in Brighton, Sussex) is a British composer, educated at Oxford, and noted for projects written for ballet, contemporary dance and theatre. Collaborators have included Siobhan Davies, Alain Platel, Shobana Jeyasingh and Ashley Page of The Royal Ballet. He is artistic director of The Shout, which he founded in 1998 with Richard Chew. The choir won the Time Out Award for Classical Artist of the Year in 2001. He released one album titled Message from the Border that was released on Catalyst/BMG Records. His 2001 commission from Fretwork, called 'Birds on Fire' was recorded by them for Harmonia Mundi under the same title and was released in 2008. He composed the music for the closing ceremony of the 2008 European Capital of Culture, Stavanger. Members of the choir include Carol Grimes, Melanie Pappenheim and Manickam Yogeswaran. In 2010 the Turner Contemporary commissioned Gough to compose a work for its opening ceremonies: "The Red Volcano" – for community choir and orchestra, had its World Premiere in April 2011 conducted by Anthony Castro.
^John Wells, "A visit from Orlando". John Wells's phonetic blog, 13 April 2011
OrlandoGough (/ɡɒf/ GOF; born 1953 in Brighton, Sussex) is a British composer, educated at Oxford, and noted for projects written for ballet, contemporary...
commissioned and directed The Finnish Prisoner, a new opera from the composer OrlandoGough and librettist Stephen Plaice. The Finnish Prisoner had its world première...
boundaries into the late 1990s. In 1997 she collaborated with the composer OrlandoGough to create 'Hotel,' a choreographed opera or sung ballet set in a hotel...
Piers Gough CBE RA (born 24 April 1946) is an architect in the practice CZWG. His younger brothers are the composer OrlandoGough and Jamie Gough, the...
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Francis Michael Gough (/ɡɒf/ GOF; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was a British character actor who made more than 150 film and television appearances...
Ferrero, 1981 La fille du régiment, Donizetti, 1840 The Finnish Prisoner, OrlandoGough, 2007 Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Terence Blanchard, 2019 Die Fledermaus...
Tyneside foghorn, 55 ships at sea and brass bands on land. Scored by OrlandoGough, it was said to be the first musical score created for foghorns. Performed...
Eno Roger Eno Graham Fitkin Malcolm Galloway John Godfrey (composer) OrlandoGough Rob Haigh Christopher Hobbs Michael Parsons Max Richter Howard Skempton...
Langridge, Stephen Plaice, David Sawer, Lavinia Greenlaw, Jonathan Dove and OrlandoGough amongst others, and culminated in performances of mini music-theatre...
commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, OrlandoGough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling...
The Finnish Prisoner is an opera by OrlandoGough set to an English-language libretto written by Stephen Plaice who based it on the true story of Finnish...
formed by Andy Blake (saxes, flute), Martin Ditcham (percussion, drums), OrlandoGough (keyboards), John Lunn (bass, keyboards), Glyn Perrin (keyboards, cello)...
Wealth, to mark the event and this was set to music by the composer OrlandoGough. In all, the pageant featured new works by thirteen modern British composers...
This was followed by the main stage community opera Imago, composed by OrlandoGough to another Plaice libretto. The latter was widely acclaimed, with Antony...
involved in high-profile collaborations with British Sea Power, Doves, OrlandoGough, and Nigel Kennedy. LBC won the Open Choir Category of BBC Radio 3's...
and choreographed by Ian Spink, written by Sian Evans with music by OrlandoGough, first staged at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London. In 2010,...
James Piccadilly. 2012: Thames Festival. Performance of a new work by OrlandoGough in a concert aboard HMS Belfast. 2009 December – Christuskirche London:...
composer OrlandoGough. This Second Stride production, directed by Ian Spink, toured England and Germany in 1996 and 1997. A year later, OrlandoGough and...
including a piece written specially for the choir by minimalist composer OrlandoGough. Funding and support for the rest of the year has been supplied by FiveArts...
Polyeucte, La reine de Saba, Roméo et Juliette, Sapho, Le tribut de Zamora OrlandoGough (1953–): The Finnish Prisoner Louis Grabu (fl. 1665–1690, died after...
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