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--July 2010: I was in residence for four weeks at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, where I completed two new works for the IMAGINARY BAND, and began work on a new large-scale work, more to be revealed at a later time...

--February 2010: I was in residence for three weeks at Yaddo, where I completed a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, The In-Between (Nine Poems of Jane Barnes), commissioned by the Keighton Fund at Curry College, to be premiered in November 2010.

--April 2009: Visit the New York City Opera's website to hear a podcast of an interview with me and librettist Charlotte Jackson... we discuss various aspects of THE RAT LAND, two scenes of which NYCO presented at VOX.

--April 2009: Quartet New Generation recorder collective has released their second CD, "In Vain," on Genuin, which includes my work "Passages," written for them. Do check it out! You can purchase it on iTunes or CD Baby

--February 2009: Meet the Composer has selected me for their Music Alive: New Partnerships program, a new initiative designed to bring about new relationships between composers and orchestras. Read more here

--January 2008: Music by me and Jeff Arnal is featured in the new film by Bruce LaBruce! The movie is called Otto: or, Up With Dead People, and it is screening at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival.

--May 2007: A scene from "The Rat Land," GB's chamber opera-in-progress, was performed by the New York City Opera on their VOX 2007 showcase at the Skirball Center in New York. Read the review from the New York Times here

--ROGUE STATES, the second duo album by Gordon Beeferman and Jeff Arnal, released September 2006. See recordings page.

-- Beeferman recipient of 2004 Fromm Foundation commission
Gordon was awarded a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. He will write a 20-minute work for the contemporary chamber ensemble eighth blackbird, to be premiered in their 2006-07 season.
Fromm Foundation website
eighth blackbird website

-- BMI Foundation and Albany Symphony Orchestra commission
("Morbidity and Mortality Report")
http://newmusicbox.org/news.nmbx?id=00221
http://www.bmifoundation.org/news/20030306a.asp

--The Minnesota Orchestra read Gordon's Symphony #1 as part of their inaugural Reading Sessions and Composer Institute.
Read the article

--Gordon was awarded his third BMI Student Composer Award, including the William Schuman Prize (given to the score judged most outstanding).
http://www.bmi.com/news/200206/20020610a.asp
http://www.newmusicbox.org/news.nmbx?id=00105

-- Short Fiction by Gordon Beeferman
Check out the anthology of fiction by young gay writers: The Gay Times Book of Short Stories: The Next Wave. The book includes Gordon's short story "Scar Tissue." Check out the following links to order a copy: US / England