Press
Profiles & Interviews
BroadwayWorld: Composer Ricky Ian Gordon To Receive P.R.I.D.E. Performing Arts Award (2019)
The Chicago Tribune: Ricky’s place at opera’s table (John von Rhein, 2015)
Disruptive Stages: Composing Authenticity in Opera, Musical Theater and Art Song (December 2020)
Edge on the Net: LGBT Legacies
Hemispheres Innerviews: A Dynamic Duet (Denise Story)
In the Balance: The Vulnerability Exchange (October 2019)
InsideBayArea.com: Bright Eyed Joy (Chad Jones, 2007)
Journal of Singing: The Vocal Point (Leslie Holmes)
Let’s Talk Music (Phillip Gainsley)
New York Magazine: Q&A (Alicia Zuckerman, 2005)
The New York Times: A Century of Proust (Caroline Weber, 2013)
Newsday: Tibetan Book of the Dead (Justin Davidson, 2015)
Opera News: High Scorers (Brian Kellow, 2000)
Opera News: The Lonely Hunter (Brian Kellow, 2007)
Opera News: Ricky’s Moment (Oussama Zahr, 2013)
Playbill Arts: 20 Questions (Alberty Imperato, 2008)
PositivelyAware.com: Sculpted in Song (Sue Saltmarsh, 2013)
Rivet Radio: American stories (Bob Kessler, 2015)
Rochester City Newspaper (Daniel J. Kushner, 29 October 2018)
Spin: Joni Mitchell and Me (Ricky Ian Gordon, 2021)
Spin: Musings On A Muse: What Laura Nyro Left Behind (Ricky Ian Gordon, 2022)
W42ST (Ruth Walker, September 2019)
Recording and Concert Reviews
(Reviews for individual works can be found in the Works section)
American Composers at Play Album Review
American Record Guide (January/February 2021)
Oberon’s Grove (October 2020)
Journal of Singing (Gregory Berg, May/June 2021)
and flowers pick themselves
American Record Guide (John Boyer, 2009)
Opera (Frederik Fischer)
Art Song Dance
Boston Globe (Cristine Temin, 2005)
Boston Herald (Theodore Bale, 21 January 2005)
Boston Herald (Theodore Bale, 24 January 2005)
The Eagle (Allison Tracy, 2004)
Bric-A-Brac
Bright Eyed Joy: The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon
Baltimore Sun (Tim Smith, 28 June 2001)
A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes in Song
Classical Post (18 October 2018)
Getty Images
The New York Times (Zachary Woolfe, 3 December 2018)
Press Release
Ellen West Album Reviews
AllMusic (James Manheim, 2020)
Musical America (October 2020)
Opera News (June 2019)
Opera Wire (Francisco Salazar, 19 October 2020)
Textura (November 2020)
WGTE Public Media (2020)
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One middle-Class Family in Postwar America
Observer (Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, 20 November 2014)
Intimate Apparel
OperaWire (Jennifer Pyron, 2 March 2020)
Lincoln Center Theater Blog (Brendan Lemon, 12 February 2020)
Life is Love
Cadenza (Brian Taylor, 2 March 2019)
Opera News (Fred Cohn, 1 March 2019)
OperaWire (Jennifer Pyron, March 2019)
A Man’s A Man
Music in Poetry
Theater Jones (Gregory Sullivan Isaacs, 4 October, 2017)
The New American Art Song by Daniel Okulitch
Piano Music of Ricky Ian Gordon by John Nauman
Audiophile Audition (Gary Lemco, 2011)
DailyClassicalMusic.com (Robert Hugill, 2011)
TheaterMania.com (Andy Propst, 2011)
Ricky Ian Gordon Sings Ricky Ian Gordon
Talkin’ Broadway (Rob Lester, 2011)
Silver Rain CD
States of Independence
Sweet Song
Sycamore Trees
The Washington Post (Peter Marks, 19 December 2010)
Tulips
First Drafts (J.C. Schaap, 2009)
The Writer’s Almanac (Garrison Keilor, 2009)
Your Clear Eye Album Reviews
The Epoch Times (Barry Bassis 25 September 2018)
Opera News: CRITIC’S CHOICE (Daniel J. Kushner, 2019)