AIC Member - John Gibson

John Gibson was born in Dublin and studied at the Dublin College of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he studied composition with Dr A. J. Potter. He also studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Munich and with Prof. Valentyna Schubinskaya in Moscow. In 2006 he was awarded a first class honours MA in Composition from the Cork School of Music.

As a pianist he has performed extensively as a concerto soloist, recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician, and has worked with Stockhausen and Lustoslawski. He is currently senior lecturer in piano and course co-ordinator for the MA in composition at the Cork School of Music.

John Gibson's music has been performed in Ireland, England, America, Germany, France, Poland, Romania, Israel, Japan, Russia, Brazil and China. Awards include the Dublin Arts Festival Prize for String Quartet No. 2; second prize in the 1975 Ó Riada Competition at the Cork International Choral Festival; and the Nijinsky Medal, awarded by the Polish Ministry of Arts in 1997 for the piano piece ‘Nijinsky’. To date, five CDs of his music have been released. These include a compilation album, ‘The John Gibson Collection’, and a disc of his chamber opera, ‘Judith and Holofernes’ (2000-01). More recent commissions include ‘Moladh go Deo le Dia’ for the Dublin AXA International Piano Competition and ‘Ikon’ for the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

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