Orlando Gough biography

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 - directs The Shout, an extraordinary choir of diverse soloists (www.theshout.org), and devises and directs large-scale site-specific choral pieces.

Recent work includes The Singing River, for 12 choirs, 18 boats, two cranes and a locomotive (Theater der Welt, Stuttgart); an oratorio, The Most Beautiful Man From The Sea (Welsh National Opera); We Turned On The Light (Proms); Swarm for marauding chorus (Barbican); a music-theatre piece, Critical Mass (Almeida Opera Festival); an opera, The Finnish Prisoner (Paddock Productions and Finnish National Opera); a music-theatre piece, One, Two, for six pairs of identical twins (Dartington); Open Port, the closing event of Stavanger 2008 European Capital of Culture, for 750 singers, brass band and wooden trumpets; and Raketensymphonie, the opening event of Linz 09 European Capital of Culture, for voices and fireworks.

He has also written a piece for children, On The Rim Of The World, commissioned by all the major opera houses in the UK.

He is an associate artist of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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