![]() Authorship: by Baruch (Benedictus) de Spinoza(1632 - 1677), appears in Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata&emsp13 author's text not yet checked against a primary source Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mlodies, (etc. He has been commissioned by the University’s Barber Institute to write a new chamber opera, Raising Icarus, planned for production in 2022. Affectus qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque ejus claram et distinctam formamus ideam. Since 2012, he has been Professor of Composition and artistic director of CrossCurrents contemporary music festival at the University of Birmingham. Gordon is also strongly committed to working with students and younger composers, including at Cheltenham Festival, Juilliard, Antwerp Conservatorium, University of Oxford and as leader of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Emerging Composers Scheme. He has won the choral category of the British Composer Awards twice, a Prix Italia for his radiophonic work A Pebble in the Pond and has had two discs listed in The Times best 100 records of the year, in 2009 for On Memory, a piano music portrait disc on NMC, and in 2019 for In the Middle of Things, a chamber music portrait disc on Resonus Classics. Gordon has worked with many internationally leading performers, including London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, King’s College Cambridge choir and The BBC Symphony Orchestra who have commissioned him twice – for Bohortha in 2012 and a Violin Concerto in 2017, with Carolin Widmann and Sakari Oramo. Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it (Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio. If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information. ![]() An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it. Memory, time and a search for the serene are recurring themes. ', 2020, first performed 2020 tenor and piano, from Baruch - Ten Propositions of Baruch Spinoza, no. Affectus qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque ejus claram et distinctam formamus ideam. ![]() ![]() Born in London, Michael Zev Gordon is a composer of richly expressive and colourful music in which the tonal and atonal, the old and new, happily rub shoulders. ![]()
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