Gordon Williams
Pre-Concert Speaker
Gordon is a writer, speaker, editor, and dramatist with a recent interest in what he calls ‘cine-opera’.
For the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, he wrote the libretto adaptation of Strehlow’s book Journey to Horseshoe Bend for composer Andrew Schultz. He also wrote new dialogue for Sydney Symphony's revival of the first opera written in Australia, 1847’s Don John of Austria, restaged at Angel Place Recital Hall, 2007. He gave many pre-concert talks for this Orchestra before moving to the US. In Los Angeles, he completed a Certificate in Screenwriting from UCLA Extension. He has been a reviewer for the international online magazine OperaWire both here and in LA, and gives his courses through Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes attached to western US university campuses.
Gordon’s longstanding association with Australia’s orchestras includes periods as a concert programmer (including producer of the first work written for orchestra by Indigenous Australians, Music is our Culture) and editor of program booklets (1999-2005).
He has lived in Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Darwin (actor/writer for Darwin Theatre Group). Born in Melbourne, he currently lives in Sydney.
