Ricky Ian Gordon

Composer Ricky Ian Gordon focuses on opera and other vocal genres, including musical theater. He began his career as a composer of Broadway-oriented songs, and much of his work exists close to the line between classical music and popular song. Gordon was born on May 15, 1956, in Oceanside, New York. His family life on Long Island was the subject of the book Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America. Gordon attended Carnegie Mellon University, studying piano, composition, and acting. Moving to New York, he had an early breakthrough with a s...