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Biography
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Jon
Gibson is a composer, multi-wind instrumentalist (saxophones, flutes,
clarinets) and visual artist who has taken part in numerous landmark
musical events over the past three and a half decades, performing
in the early works of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young and
Philip Glass, with whom he continues to perform in various configurations,
along with a host of other musicians, choreographers and artists including
Merce Cunningham, Nancy Topf, Lucinda Childs, JoAnne Akalaitis, Simone
Forti, Thomas Buckner, Harold Budd, David Behrman, Elizabetta Vittoni
and Moacir Santos. Current projects and performances include collaborations
with the Nina Winthrop Dance Company and dancers Elisabetta Vittoni
and Hetty King. He is also involved with the work and legacy of Nancy
Topf. Gibson recently received a grant from the New York State Council
for the Arts with which he composed a music/theater piece about the
inventor Nicola Tesla entitled Violet Fire. He has also received
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation,
New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
Trust and Meet the Composer. His music can be heard on the New Tone,
Point Music, Lovely Music, EarRational Records and Einstein Records
labels and he appears on recordings by Glass, Steve Reich, Frederick
Rzewski, Arthur Russell, Annea Lockwood, Peter Zummo and Robert Ashley.
His visual work, which is closely related to his music, has been exhibited
in solo and group shows throughout the world and manifests itself
in various media, including drawings, videos, books, and prints. Gibson
is a graduate of San Francisco State University where he studied composition
with Wayne Peterson and Henry Onderdonk. |