Daniel Gordon

Profile

Accompanist, performance tutor/coach and performance examiner at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels.  Formerly module leader for level 2 and 3 solo performance modules.  Concerts committee; Keyboard committee; Fire warden.

Former head chorister of Westminster Abbey; Instrumental scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where Daniel read Theoretical Physics and Philosophy. He wrote geophysics software and taught computing to postgraduates for several years before becoming a professional musician.

Daniel's position at the university is part-time (70%).  Outwith this, he is Accompanist and Assistant Chorusmaster of Huddersfield Choral Society, Conductor of Huddersfield Singers, and voluntary Music Director of the Leeds Hospitals Trust.  He has played with many groups, e.g. CBSO chorus (repetiteuring), Manchester Camerata (harpsichord), Opera North (piano), Black Dyke Band (organ/piano), etc.

Responsibilities

• Repetiteur

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Qualifications

• M.Sc. Computer Integrated Manufacturing (Cranfield)
• M.A. Physics and Philosophy (Balliol College, Oxford)

Student education

Accompanist, tutor/coach, organiser and principal class teacher for all the solo and small-group performance/recital modules at all levels (first-year undergraduate to masters), and accompanist to some Ph.D. performers.  This amounts to organising, and in most cases accompanying, several hundred student performances every year, across a wide range of genres.  Also support many student concerts, as accompanist and programme-planner.  These are both on campus (8 per year minimum) and off campus, e.g. Ripon Cathedral, where we have done 6 lunchtime concerts every year since the series started in 2004, Wakefield Cathedral (2 per year), etc.