Richard Gibson

Richard Gibson (born December 13, 1953) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, and Professor of Composition at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick.

He is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.

Gibson has also been active as a producer for classical recordings. One of these – the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra's Forbidden City Tour CD – won an East Coast Music Award (ECMA) in 2008 for Classical Recording of the Year.

Education B.Mus., Dalhousie University (Steve Tittle, composition) M.Mus., University of Western Ontario (Peter Paul Koprowski, composition) PhD, King's College London (David Lumsdaine, composition)

Awards 1983 – First Prize, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) competition for young composers 1992 – New Brunswick Award for Excellence in Arts

Compositions

Solo works Nightingales for Katy (flute) 1982 Cantilena (guitar) 1984 Sonate (saxophone) 1984 Resonances (percussion) 1985 Sept Miniatures (guitar) 1986 Hemispheres (bass guitar) 1987 Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace (piano) 1987 25 Préludes (piano) 1996 Cora (percussion) 2000 Lepidoptera (piano) 2002 You gotta move (trumpet) 2002 Julia – Variaciones sobre un tema de Juan Lennon (guitar) 2013

Chamber works Les Îles (12 brass) 1976 Oboe Piece (oboe, piano) 1976 Free Flight I (trumpet, fixed media) 1977 What? Not Another Dance! (3 percussion) 1977 Oboe Metamorphosis (oboe, fixed media) 1978 Capriccio (flute, 4 percussion) 1979 Pattern Music (bass guitar, 2 synthesizers) 1980 Jazz Poems (5 jazz players, live electronics) 1981 Free Flight II (trumpet, double bass, percussion) 1983 Passacaille (violin, piano) 1988 Changing Perspectives (string quartet) 1990 The Mindfulness of Breathing (4 tubas) 1990 Conversation Piece (flute, oboe, bass clarinet, trumpet, piano) 1991 Neuf Cartes Postales de Cornwall (violin, viola) 1992 Les Cloches de Kastelli (4 percussion) 1994 Montañas del Fuego (clarinet, percussion) 1995 Seven Pieces (bass clarinet, piano) 1995 Le Barachois (violin, cello, piano) 1996 Canzona (11 brass) 1997 Éloges pour Han-Shen (4 percussion) 1998 April Remembered (violin, double bass) 1999 Mouvement Polyphonique (3 trombones, piano) 2001 Guitar Quartet (4 guitars) 2002

Vocal works Glistenin' Whistle (mixed chorus, flute, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, guitar, violin, bass guitar, percussion) 1976 Parfums Exotiques (soprano, flute, cello, piano) 1976 Beatus Vir (mixed chorus) 1987 Hidden Rivers (soprano, piano) 1987 The Gravity of Earth (speaker, synthesizers, percussion, string orchestra, live electronics) 1988 Nisi Dominus (soloists, 4 choruses, orchestra) 1989 Remembering a Woman's Voice (soprano, cello) 1990 White Pearls (baritone, clarinet, French horn, cello, percussion) 1991 Cinq Poèmes de Raymond Guy Leblanc (soprano, lute, 4 percussion, string quartet) 1993 Transfigured Autumn (mixed chorus, small orchestra) 1993 For Daniel (tenor, piano) 1995 Trois Chants Klingons (soprano, 4 flutes, synthesizer, 2 percussion, live electronics) 1995 Poème du Mois de Juillet (soloists, speaker, mixed chorus, 9 percussion) 1999

Works for large ensemble Synchrony (symphonic band) 1978 Concerto (trombone, orchestra) 1982 Mantras (youth orchestra) 1987 Musique Solennelle (small orchestra) 1987 November Music (14 strings) 1990 Étude Chromatique (symphonic band) 1994 Sinfonietta (symphonic band) 1994 Symphony (orchestra) 1994 A Festive Overture (orchestra) 2000 Neo-Baroque Suite (youth string orchestra) 2002

Discography Et + Ke 2 – Amerythme (Atlantica Musique 02002) – 1994 (contains Les Cloches de Kastelli for 4 percussion) Canadian Music for Clarinet – James Mark, clarinet – 1999 (contains Montañas Del Fuego for clarinet and percussion) Nightingales for Katy – Karin Aurell, flute – 2005 (contains Nightingales for Katy for flute) Piano Atlantica – Barbara Pritchard, piano (Centrediscs CMC CD 15210) – 2010 (contains Variation and excerpts from 25 Préludes) Richard Boulanger joue Richard Gibson – musique pour piano seul – 2015 (contains Le 24 décembre 2004, Lepidoptera, 24 Notes, 25 Préludes (excerpts), Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace, and Sarabande)