Cellist Joshua Gordon has won acclaim from audiences, critics, colleagues, and composers for his dramatic music making and rich tone. An experienced soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and educator who joined the Naumburg Award winning Lydian String Quartet and the music faculty of Brandeis University in 2002, he is also an artist member of the Worcester Chamber Music Society and resident cellist at the annual Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center led by Kurt Rohde. He is equally at home performing on stage in famous concert halls around the world, in an Australian limestone arch cave, or with dancers on a Boston housing project basketball court. He has been a guest of many ensembles and festivals including the Apple Hill, Cassatt, Ciompi, DaPonte, Juilliard, and Ying Quartets; and Boston Baroque, Boston Chamber Music Society, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, Fromm Players at Harvard University, Lighthouse Chamber Players, Mistral Music, Monadnock Music, Music Mountain, North Country Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Portland Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Speculum Musicae, and the UMass Bach Festival.

Mr. Gordon’s duo with pianist Randall Hodgkinson was described as “insightful and impassioned” by The New Yorker, and their New World recording Leo Ornstein: Complete Works For Cello and Piano was named one of the top 10 classical recordings of 2007 by the All Music Guide. As a Lydian, Mr. Gordon can be heard on critically acclaimed recordings of works by Martin Boykan, Mohammed Fairouz, John Harbison, Laurie San Martin, Vincent Persichetti, Kurt Rohde, and Beethoven in a set of his late quartets. He is also featured playing music ranging from Roger Sessions and Charles Wuorinen to Morton Feldman and Gerry Hemingway on recordings from Albany Records, CRI, Cala, Koch International Classics, Naxos, and Tzadik.