Blog & News
News about recent and current projects by composer David Gorton — performances, recordings, research and collaborations with the musicians he works with.
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Notes from the studio, the rehearsal room and the lecture hall, written while projects are in progress. Entries are dated as they were posted.
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18 May 2013
V&A Video
A video on the Victoria and Albert Museum website: ‘Peter Sheppard Skærved: Music for the Cast Courts’.
Watch the V&A video — and see the entry on Cast Courts at the V&A for more details.
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2013
A month at the Orpheus Institute
A month spent at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, where the work was carried out as a Visiting Researcher during the first week of the stay alongside the institute’s programme of sessions and lectures.
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2012
Cast Courts at the V&A
On 14 September 2012, ‘Hlówung for Sutton Hoo’ and ‘Rosetta Caprice’ were performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, accompanied by the video feature noted above.
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February 2012
Nashville 2012
A return to Nashville for an exchange project between the Royal Academy of Music and Vanderbilt University.
Milestones
Selected dated events from recent years, alongside other work, performance and publishing news.
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February 2016
University of London: David Gorton awarded the title Associate Professor of the University of London at the Royal Academy of Music.
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January 2016
‘Alma Redemptoris Mater’ for choir with solo soprano published by NoteNova publishing.
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11 & 23 November 2015
‘Burgh Castle’ received its first performances by Roderick Chadwick and the CHROMA ensemble at The Forge and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
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8–13 June 2015
Presentations with Stefan Östersjö on ‘Austerity Measures I’ at IRCAM in Paris and CARPA4 in Helsinki.
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17 March 2015
‘Three Deleuzabelli Variations’ were first performed by the Hermes Ensemble in Antwerp.
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18 March 2011
Caprice VII ‘Only Connect’ was performed at the National Portrait Gallery.
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31 May 2011
An event at Wolfson College, Oxford, featured Christopher Redgate performing ‘Erinnerungsspiel’.