title: Richard Gibson (composer)
text: # Richard Gibson (composer)
  
  Richard Gibson (born December 13, 1953) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, and Professor of Composition at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick.
  
  He is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.
  
  Gibson has also been active as a producer for classical recordings. One of these – the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra's Forbidden City Tour CD – won an East Coast Music Award (ECMA) in 2008 for Classical Recording of the Year.
  
  ## Education
  
  * B.Mus., Dalhousie University (Steve Tittle, composition)
  * M.Mus., University of Western Ontario (Peter Paul Koprowski, composition)
  * PhD, King's College London (David Lumsdaine, composition)
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 1983 – First Prize, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) competition for young composers
  * 1992 – New Brunswick Award for Excellence in Arts
  
  ## Compositions
  
  ### Solo works
  
  * Nightingales for Katy (flute) 1982
  * Cantilena (guitar) 1984
  * Sonate (saxophone) 1984
  * Resonances (percussion) 1985
  * Sept Miniatures (guitar) 1986
  * Hemispheres (bass guitar) 1987
  * Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace (piano) 1987
  * 25 Préludes (piano) 1996
  * Cora (percussion) 2000
  * Lepidoptera (piano) 2002
  * You gotta move (trumpet) 2002
  * Julia – Variaciones sobre un tema de Juan Lennon (guitar) 2013
  
  ### Chamber works
  
  * Les Îles (12 brass) 1976
  * Oboe Piece (oboe, piano) 1976
  * Free Flight I (trumpet, fixed media) 1977
  * What? Not Another Dance! (3 percussion) 1977
  * Oboe Metamorphosis (oboe, fixed media) 1978
  * Capriccio (flute, 4 percussion) 1979
  * Pattern Music (bass guitar, 2 synthesizers) 1980
  * Jazz Poems (5 jazz players, live electronics) 1981
  * Free Flight II (trumpet, double bass, percussion) 1983
  * Passacaille (violin, piano) 1988
  * Changing Perspectives (string quartet) 1990
  * The Mindfulness of Breathing (4 tubas) 1990
  * Conversation Piece (flute, oboe, bass clarinet, trumpet, piano) 1991
  * Neuf Cartes Postales de Cornwall (violin, viola) 1992
  * Les Cloches de Kastelli (4 percussion) 1994
  * Montañas del Fuego (clarinet, percussion) 1995
  * Seven Pieces (bass clarinet, piano) 1995
  * Le Barachois (violin, cello, piano) 1996
  * Canzona (11 brass) 1997
  * Éloges pour Han-Shen (4 percussion) 1998
  * April Remembered (violin, double bass) 1999
  * Mouvement Polyphonique (3 trombones, piano) 2001
  * Guitar Quartet (4 guitars) 2002
  
  ### Vocal works
  
  * Glistenin' Whistle (mixed chorus, flute, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, guitar, violin, bass guitar, percussion) 1976
  * Parfums Exotiques (soprano, flute, cello, piano) 1976
  * Beatus Vir (mixed chorus) 1987
  * Hidden Rivers (soprano, piano) 1987
  * The Gravity of Earth (speaker, synthesizers, percussion, string orchestra, live electronics) 1988
  * Nisi Dominus (soloists, 4 choruses, orchestra) 1989
  * Remembering a Woman's Voice (soprano, cello) 1990
  * White Pearls (baritone, clarinet, French horn, cello, percussion) 1991
  * Cinq Poèmes de Raymond Guy Leblanc (soprano, lute, 4 percussion, string quartet) 1993
  * Transfigured Autumn (mixed chorus, small orchestra) 1993
  * For Daniel (tenor, piano) 1995
  * Trois Chants Klingons (soprano, 4 flutes, synthesizer, 2 percussion, live electronics) 1995
  * Poème du Mois de Juillet (soloists, speaker, mixed chorus, 9 percussion) 1999
  
  ### Works for large ensemble
  
  * Synchrony (symphonic band) 1978
  * Concerto (trombone, orchestra) 1982
  * Mantras (youth orchestra) 1987
  * Musique Solennelle (small orchestra) 1987
  * November Music (14 strings) 1990
  * Étude Chromatique (symphonic band) 1994
  * Sinfonietta (symphonic band) 1994
  * Symphony (orchestra) 1994
  * A Festive Overture (orchestra) 2000
  * Neo-Baroque Suite (youth string orchestra) 2002
  
  ## Discography
  
  * Et + Ke 2 – Amerythme (Atlantica Musique 02002) – 1994 (contains Les Cloches de Kastelli for 4 percussion)
  * Canadian Music for Clarinet – James Mark, clarinet – 1999 (contains Montañas Del Fuego for clarinet and percussion)
  * Nightingales for Katy – Karin Aurell, flute – 2005 (contains Nightingales for Katy for flute)
  * Piano Atlantica – Barbara Pritchard, piano (Centrediscs CMC CD 15210) – 2010 (contains Variation and excerpts from 25 Préludes)
  * Richard Boulanger joue Richard Gibson – musique pour piano seul – 2015 (contains Le 24 décembre 2004, Lepidoptera, 24 Notes, 25 Préludes (excerpts), Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace, and Sarabande)
  