Michael Gordon

The founder of the Bang on a Can new music event, composer Michael Gordon has written many large works of his own, many of a collaborative nature. His works have been performed by avant-garde musical ensembles in several countries. Gordon was born in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 20, 1956. He grew up partly in Nicaragua, in an Eastern European Jewish community near the capital of Managua, returning to Miami Beach at eight. A formative part of Gordon's musical education involved the collision between academic musical traditions and vernacular music; he studied at Yale Universi...