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Adam Gorb

Professional

Composer/Lyricist: Composer
Genre: Concert
Email: adam.gorb@btinternet.com
Website: www.adamgorb.co.uk

Biography

Reviews:

"... a lively and eventful score ... would I care to hear Gorb's concerto again? Definitely, yes."
- David Fanning, The Daily Telegraph, October 1999

"Everything I have heard by Adam Gorb has intrigued and delighted me, and this work does not let us down. It is full of inventiveness and an extraordinary sense of tone colour."
- Robert Beale, Manchester Evening News, April 1998

"A score that you longed to hear again, then and there ... weeping and whooping by turns ... utterly life-enhancing." - Jenny Gilbert, The Independent, February 1996

Adam Gorb is represented by the publishers

Alfred Lengnick & Co
27 Grove Road, Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 1UR
Tel: 01494 681216 Fax: 01494 670443
E-mail: GBmuswill@aol.com

Maecenas
Contemporary Composers Ltd
5 Bushey Close, Old Barn Lane, Kenley, Surrey CR8 5AU
Tel: 020 8660 4766 Fax: 020 8668 5273

Important Works Performances
  1. Orchestral: Viola Concerto Op. 5 (1992) [1 (picc), 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, timp, strings (5,4,3,2,1)] 26 mins (pub. Lengnick)
  2. Awayday Op. 24a (orchestral version) (1999) [picc.2.2.2.2, 4.2.3.1, timp, 3 perc, pno, strings] 6 mins (pub. Maecenas)
  3. Clarinet Concerto Op. 34 (1999) [3 (picc), 3 (cor ang), E flat cl, bcl, 2, cbsn, 4.3.3.1, 4 perc, harp, strings] 30 mins
  4. Wind Ensemble: Metropolis Op. 8 (1992) [picc, 2 fl (picc 2), 2 ob, E flat cl, 4 cl, bcl, cbcl, 2 bsn, cbsn, 4 sax, 4 hn, 4 tpt, 3 tbn, euph, tba, 5 perc, pno, db] 14 mins (pub. Maecenas) Winner of 1994 Walter Beeler Memorial Prize (USA)
  5. Awayday Op. 24 (1996) Commissioned by Royal Northern College of Music [picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, E flat cl, 4 cl, bass cl, 2 bsn, cbsn, 4 sax, 4 hn, 4 tpt, 3 tbn, euph, tba, db, pno, 5 perc} 6 mins (pub. Maecenas)
  6. Elements Op. 30 for percussion solo and wind ensemble (1997-8) [picc, 2 fl (picc 2 & 3), 3 ob (cor ang), E flat cl, 2 cl, bcl, 2 bsn, cbsn, 2 sax, 4 hn, 4 tpt, 3 tbn, 2 tba, pno, db, 3 perc] 30 mins (pub. Maecenas)
  7. Ensemble: Kol Simcha Ballet Op. 19 (1995) Commissioned by London Musici for Klezmer (Traditional Jewish) Folk Ensemble [Klezmer cl in C, db, cl, tpt, tbn, 1 perc, accordion, 2 vln, db] 23 mins (pub. Lengnick)
  8. Chamber: Prelude, Interlude and Postlude Op. 3 (1992) For piano solo 10 mins (pub. Lengnick) Winner of 1995 Purcell Composition Prize
  9. Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 23 (1996) Commissioned by Thomas Bowes and Eleanor Alberga 20 mins (pub. Maecenas)
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