Ingrid Gordon

Percussionist

Ingrid Gordon is a versatile percussionist whose range extends from orchestral music to West African drumming.

Ingrid has performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and in chamber music recitals across the United States. She is founder and artistic director of the New York City based ensemble Percussia, which is known for its innovative and eclectic repertoire that incorporates world music influences and instruments into the contemporary classical idiom. In addition to Percussia, Ingrid has also performed and recorded with other numerous other contemporary music groups in New York City, such as the Azure Ensemble, the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, and the Tobenski-Algera recital series.

Ingrid has performed at all of New York's major venues, including Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and Symphony Space. She has performed with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players Orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and the Albany Symphony, and has appeared at the Spoleto Festival.

Ingrid has also mastered a variety of world music traditions, from Zimbabwean mbira and Ghanaian fontomfrom to North Indian tabla, Javanese gamelan, and Irish bodhran. She founded the traditional Mexican marimba ensemble Marimba Nueva York, and is one of the few people to perform Jewish klezmer music on the xylophone. She has traveled as far afield as Ghana and Indonesia in pursuit of new sounds, and has the instrument collection to prove it.

Ingrid has taught percussion privately at the Lucy Moses School in Manhattan, and the Music School of Westchester in Mamaroneck, NY. She is currently a teaching artist for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Tilles Center on Long Island, and has been invited to join the training programs of the Lincoln Center Institute and Carnegie Hall's Teaching Artist Collaborative.

Ingrid holds a DMA from the University of Illinois, an MM from Northwestern University, and a BM from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the prestigious performer's certificate. Her teachers include John Beck, Patricia Dash, and Tom Siwe. She has recorded for Centaur, Signum, New World Records, and Col Legno


Top photo: Mark Stephen Kornbluth
Bottom photo (with drum): Chris Brown

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