Gabriel Gordon
ADJUNCTSAdjunct
Music
Email: ggordon@westminsteru.edu
About
Gabriel Gordon, violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger, has been performing
professionally for over 40 years.
Gabriel has enjoyed a career conducting across the United States, Australia, and Europe.
Mr. Gordon has conducted the Santa Fe Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, and at Santa
Fe Opera. He placed second in the Denver Philharmonic International Conducting Competition,
and won the International Conductor’s Workshop and Competition in Atlanta.
In 2001, Gabriel produced and conducted “The Concert for Humanity” in reaction to
the events of 9/11 with his ensemble The Chamber Orchestra at Tower Hill. The performance
of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony raised $30,000 for the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
Since 2019, Gabriel has served as a cover and guest conductor for Ballet West conducting
performances of The Nutcracker, Rodeo, and Les Noces, Dracula, and Stars and Stripes.
He has conducted for the Oklahoma City Ballet with their production of Jorden Morris’s
Peter Pan and the Gwinnett Symphony as the winner of The International Conductor’s
Workshop and Competition. Last season, he made his Orlando Ballet debut with Christopher
Stowell’s Swan Lake, and conducted Ballet 5:8’s Beyond The Nutcracker. He looks forward
to returning to both Orlando and Oklahoma City Ballets this year.
Gabriel conducts The New American Philharmonic and is a frequent guest conductor with
Chamber Orchestra Ogden and The Nova Chamber series with whom he conducted two world
premiers by Jessica Rudman and Laura Kaminsky. Gabriel is also the Orchestra Director
at Syracuse Arts Academy, the new Conductor for the Westminster University Orchestra,
and is a board member of The Davis Arts Council.
As a violinist, Gabriel has performed with many orchestras such as the American Symphony,
the Santa Fe Symphony, and the New Mexico Philharmonic. Mr. Gordon is a founding member
of the Daponte String Quartet and has performed chamber music across the country.
In 2015, Mr. Gordon founded NEXT Ensemble and has had his compositions and arrangements
premiered there. Gabriel is the Concertmaster of Chamber Orchestra Ogden and also
freelances in the Salt Lake City area, performing with many ensembles including Ballet
West. Gabriel also has a Youtube channel called Gabriel Gordon: The Art of Listening.
In 2022 he was invited by the Utah Jazz to perform his arrangement of "The State Anthem
of Ukraine”, the first time a foreign national anthem has ever been played before
a game. The event was covered by articles in The Independent, Newsweek, People Magazine,
and the local ABC, Fox, and NBC affiliates in Utah.
