is a composer and pianist from New York City. He writes bright, angular chamber music, often for electric guitars, harpsichords, synthesizers, and drums, and makes interdisciplinary work in media like installation, experimental theater, and dance theater. His work often addresses social complexity, probing structures such as networks and crowds in search of portraits of social density and phenomenologies of the social.
As a Yale undergrad he co-founded and co-directed the new music and improvising ensemble Black is the Color, with which he devised, composed, and produced immersive concerts. They were packed with original music, staged in theater spaces, and variously incorporated giant timed pneumatic sculptures, a 15-ft circular LED light truss, original video work, immense curved curtains, and blacklight paint.
As a pianist, Gideon has performed on NPR and at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. His solo and chamber works have been performed by Black is the Color, So Percussion, the Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus, Rachel Koblyakov, and the Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, and he has written music for the plays Eurydice and Household. He conceived and produced Small Worlds, an installation for sound, video, and movement; With Hidden Noise, a performance installation scattered across the Yale University Art Gallery, with Black is the Color; and We Wove a Web, a dance theater work about the Brontë sisters scored for string orchestra, with writer and choreographer Rebecca Brudner.
His primary composition teachers have been Konrad Kaczmarek, Kathryn Alexander, Robert Beaser, Manuel Sosa, Matthew Suttor, and Benjamin Boyle. His primary piano teachers have been Wei-Yi Yang and Ernest Barretta. He graduated from Julliard’s Pre-College Division and holds a BA in music and sociology from Yale, where he was awarded the Selden Memorial Award for music and the humanities, and an MSc in sociology from the London School of Economics.
is a composer and pianist from New York City. He writes bright, angular chamber music, often for electric guitars, harpsichords, synthesizers, and drums, and makes interdisciplinary work in media like installation, experimental theater, and dance theater. His work often addresses social complexity, probing structures such as networks and crowds in search of portraits of social density and phenomenologies of the social.
As a Yale undergrad he co-founded and co-directed the new music and improvising ensemble Black is the Color, with which he devised, composed, and produced immersive concerts. They were packed with original music, staged in theater spaces, and variously incorporated giant timed pneumatic sculptures, a 15-ft circular LED light truss, original video work, immense curved curtains, and blacklight paint.
As a pianist, Gideon has performed on NPR and at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. His solo and chamber works have been performed by Black is the Color, So Percussion, the Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus, Rachel Koblyakov, and the Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, and he has written music for the plays Eurydice and Household. He conceived and produced Small Worlds, an installation for sound, video, and movement; With Hidden Noise, a performance installation scattered across the Yale University Art Gallery, with Black is the Color; and We Wove a Web, a dance theater work about the Brontë sisters scored for string orchestra, with writer and choreographer Rebecca Brudner.
His primary composition teachers have been Konrad Kaczmarek, Kathryn Alexander, Robert Beaser, Manuel Sosa, Matthew Suttor, and Benjamin Boyle. His primary piano teachers have been Wei-Yi Yang and Ernest Barretta. He graduated from Julliard’s Pre-College Division and holds a BA in music and sociology from Yale, where he was awarded the Selden Memorial Award for music and the humanities, and an MSc in sociology from the London School of Economics.