Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Christopher Lyndon-Gee is an unusually versatile figure, noteworthy as a conductor, composer, pianist, organist, educator, and musicologist. In most of his activities, he has been a champion of contemporary music.
Lyndon-Gee was born in London. He attended the University of Durham, graduating with first-class honors. He studied conducting in London with Rudolf Schwarz, moving on to Rome for further work with Franco Ferrara, earning a Diploma di Perfezionamento in conducting at the Conservatorio S. Cecilia. During his studies in Rome, Lyndon-Gee was spotted by star conductor Leonard Bernstein, who invited him to come to the Tanglewood summer music courses as a conductor. He worked there with conductors Erich Leinsdorf and Maurice de Abravanel, among others. As a composer, Lyndon-Gee studied with Goffredo Petrassi, Luciano Berio, and Jean Martinon. He stayed on in Italy as an assistant to composer-conductor Bruno Maderna at the La Scala opera house, later conducting the orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin and the RAI Torino Orchestra. In Italy, he also founded the Ensemble Fase Seconda. Lyndon-Gee also studied the organ, becoming a Fellow and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists. As a musicologist, he was mentored by Arthur Hutchings.
Lyndon-Gee spent 12 years in Australia, serving as the chief conductor of the Canberra Pro Arte Orchestra and organizing festivals devoted to contemporary music. He also commissioned numerous new works as a pianist, and his works were widely played and honored. He won the Onassis Foundation Prize in 2001 for his ballet Il poeta muore, earned three Sounds Australian awards, and won two prestigious MacDowell Fellowships in the U.S. As a conductor based in the U.S., he has led orchestras across Europe, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as in North America. Since 2002, he has been on the faculty at Adelphi University on Long Island, New York.
Lyndon-Gee's discography is impressively large and has been devoted in the main to contemporary music. In the 1990s, he recorded the complete orchestral works of Igor Markevitch with the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra for the Marco Polo label. In 1993, he became one of the first conductors to sign an ongoing contract with the Naxos label, which reissued the Markevitch albums and has issued other Lyndon-Gee albums devoted to contemporary composers from Hans Werner Henze to George Rochberg and Valentin Silvestrov, whose Symphony No. 7 he recorded with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and released in 2020.
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Œuvres orchestrales (Intégrale - Volume 7)
Martijn van den Hoek, Nienke Oostenrijk, Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Concert Choir (Men's Voices), Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Dec 14, 2010
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Œuvres orchestrales (Intégrale - Volume 6)
Lucy Shelton, Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Dec 27, 2000
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Œuvres orchestrales (Intégrale - Volume 5)
Lucy Shelton, Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Cappella Carolina, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jan 1, 1998
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Œuvres orchestrales (Intégrale - Volume 3)
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 24, 1997
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Œuvres orchestrales (Intégrale - Volume 2)
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jul 1, 1997
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Valentin Silvestrov: Works
Inna Galatenko, Marija Grikevičiūtė, Oleg Bezborodko, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Aug 14, 2020
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Symphonie n°1 - Ballade Orchestre à corde
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Marco-Polo on Feb 21, 1996
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Œuvres Orchestrales (Volume 2)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Bloch, Elizabeth Watts, Maria Grochowska, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Camerata Silesia
Classical - Released by Naxos on May 27, 2008
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Arcana - Intégrales - Déserts
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maryse Castets, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jun 1, 2001
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Symphony No. 2 / Imago Mundi
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 1, 2005
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RACHMANINOV / SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concertos
Bernd Glemser, Michael Houstoun, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Aug 11, 2000
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Narbutaitė: No Yesterday, No Tomorrow
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Jovita Vaškevičiūtė, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Tomas Pavilionis
Classical - Released by Naxos on Dec 1, 2017
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Violin Concerto
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Apr 1, 2004
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Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Michael Houstoun, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, John Taber
Classical - Released by Naxos on Aug 3, 1995
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Bacevičius: Spring Suite & Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
Gabrielius Alekna, Lietuvos nacionalinis simfoninis orkestras, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Apr 7, 2015
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ROCHBERG: Symphony No. 1
Saarbrucken German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Oct 30, 2007
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IPPOLITOV-IVANOV : Caucasian Sketches
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Marco-Polo on Jan 1, 1991
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Symphony No. 5 / Black Sounds
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jun 2, 2003
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Concerto pour piano - Cantate - Icare
Martijn van den Hoek, Nienke Oostenrijk, Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Concert Choir (Men's Voices), Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Marco-Polo on Dec 14, 2010
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Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung & Postludium for Piano & Orchestra
Janusz Wawrowski, Jurgis Karnavičius, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Naxos on May 10, 2024
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Rebus - Hymnes
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Classical - Released by Marco-Polo on Sep 24, 1997
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