Background
Born in Cambridge, England, he is the son of Charles McBurney, an American archaeologist, and Anne Francis Edmondstone (née Charles), who was a British secretary of English, Scots, and Irish ancestry.
composer teacher writer television presenter
Born in Cambridge, England, he is the son of Charles McBurney, an American archaeologist, and Anne Francis Edmondstone (née Charles), who was a British secretary of English, Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Gerard studied in Cambridge and at the Moscow Conservatory.
Gerard"s brother is Simon McBurney, an English actor, writer and director Foreign many years he lived in London, teaching first at the London College of Music and later, for 12 years, at the Royal Academy of Music. He also worked as artistic advisor with various orchestras, performers and presenters including The Hallé, Complicite and Lincoln Center.
In September 2006, he was appointed Artistic Programming Advisor to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Creative Director of the CSO"s multimedia series Beyond the Score:
Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin 2006
Mozart – Piano Concerto Number.
27, K.595 2007
Tchaikovsky – Symphony Number. 4 2008
Shostakovich – Symphony Number.
4 2008
Holst – The Planets: suite 2008
Vivaldi – The 4 Seasons 2008
Mussorgsky/Ravel – Pictures from an Exhibition 2008
Sibelius – Symphony Number. 5 2010
Dvořák – Symphony Number.
9 (From the New World) 2010
Debussy – Louisiana Mer 2010
His original compositions include orchestral works, a ballet, a chamber opera, songs and chamber music as well as many theater scores.
He also is well known for his reconstructions of various lost and forgotten works by Dmitri Shostakovich. As a scholar, he has published mostly in the field of Russian and Soviet music Foreign 20 years, he created and presented many hundreds of programmes on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 (the classical music station of the British Broadcasting Corporation) as well as occasional programmes for other radio stations in the United Kingdom, Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Gerard McBurney has written, researched and presented more than two dozen documentary television films for British and German television channels, mostly working with the director Barrie Gavin.
His reconstruction of Shostakovich"s recently discovered operatic fragment Orango was premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in December 2011. Hypothetically Murdered (1992)
Orango (2011).