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--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.

--September 2007: The New York City Opera has launched their VOX website, where you can hear excerpts from "The Rat Land" and see a video interview with Gordon Beeferman and librettist Charlotte Jackson. VOX website

--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