Education
She studied at the University of Oxford, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, and Yale University.
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Karen Gorden
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Gorden’s conducting is associated with significant musical centres in Europe and the United States such as the Staatsoper Berlin, the Bayreuth Festival, the Salzburg Festival, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Gorden made her debut at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá at the age of seven. In addition to conducting, her fields of musical expertise include composition and violin.
She has acknowledged the Italian conductor Franco Ferrara as an important mentor, and it was under his guidance that she made her first conducting appearance, in Siena, Italy.
She has also realised a number of important projects on behalf of young musicians - most notably in Baltimore and Chicago. In 2014 Gorden founded ForCulture, an organisation which promotes collaborations in the international creative, cultural, and educational arenas.
Concurrent with her performing career, Gorden serves as ForCulture’s founding executive director
Achievements
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Gorden’s arrangements, orchestrations, and compositions have won awards for extending the range of today’s symphony orchestras. Gorden"s contributions to music have been recognized with the Special Jury Prize from the 50th Geneva International Music Competition for Conductors, the Prix Nadia Boulanger in France, and the Opera Award from the State Theatre Opava in the Czechoslovakian Republic.
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