Gordon Monahan


Gordon Monahan is a Canadian pianist and composer of experimental music. He has been active since at least 1978. Along with his own work, he has performed works by other composers such as John Cage, James Tenney, Udo Kasemets and Roberto Paci Dalò. He has also created site-specific sound installations. In 1992-93 he was artist-in-residence with the DAAD in Berlin where he lived until 2006.

Awards

Monahan won first prize at the 1984 CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers.
He is one of six Laureates to receive Governor General’s Awards for Visual and Media Arts in 2013.
Linda Jansma and Carsten Seiffarth : Gordon Monahan: Seeing Sound, Sound Art, Performance and Music, 1978-2011, 159 pages plus DVD. Toronto : Doris McCarthy Gallery , 2011,