Joshua Gordon

The cellist Joshua Gordon has won acclaim from audiences, critics, colleagues, and composers for his dramatic music making and rich tone. An experienced soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and educator who joined the Naumburg Award

winning Lydian String Quartet in 2002, he is also an artist member of the Worcester Chamber Music Society and recently concluded a 35 year run as resident cellist at the annual Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center led by Kurt Rohde. He is equally at home whether performing on stage in famous concert halls around the world, in an Australian limestone arch cave, or with dancers on a Boston housing project basketball court. He has been a guest of many ensembles and festivals including the Apple Hill, Cassatt, DaPonte, Juilliard, and Ying Quartets, Boston Baroque, Boston Chamber Music Society, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, Fromm Players at Harvard University, Lighthouse Chamber Players, Mistral Music, Monadnock Music, North Country Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Portland Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Speculum Musicae, and the UMass Bach Festival. Joshua Gordon's duo with pianist Randall Hodgkinson has been described as "insightful and impassioned" by _The New Yorker_, and their New World recording _Leo Ornstein: Complete Works For Cello and Piano_ was named one of the top 10 classical recordings of 2007 by the _All Music Guide_. As a Lydian, Gordon can be heard on critically acclaimed recordings of works by Martin Boykan, Mohammed Fairouz, John Harbison, Laurie San Martin, Vincent Persichetti, Kurt Rohde, and Beethoven in a set of his late quartets. He is also featured playing music ranging from Roger Sessions and Charles Wuorinen to Morton Feldman and Gerry Hemingway on recordings from Albany Records, CRI, Cala, Koch International Classics, Naxos, and Tzadik. His web site can be found at joshuagordoncello.com.