Orlando Gough was a founder member of the bands The Lost Jockey and Man Jumping. He writes music mostly for the theatre - operas, plays, dance pieces, music-theatre - and for choirs. His recent work includes We Turned On The Light, for 500 singers and orchestra (Proms); Swarm, for marauding chorus (Barbican); The Finnish Prisoner, an opera (The Paddock / Finnish National Opera); Critical Mass, a music-theatre piece (Almeida Opera Festival); One, Two, a music-theatre piece (Dartington Summer School). He works regularly with the theatre director Rufus Norris, providing music for Peribanez (Young Vic); Blood Wedding (Almeida); Festen (Almeida, Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue); Tintin (Barbican). Future projects include commissions for the Scottish Ballet, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, Stavanger 2008, Brighton Festival, and Royal Opera House. His work is published by Boosey and Hawkes. |
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