Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon (born 1951 in New York City) is an American composer and saxophonist who studied with Robert Ashley and Terry Riley at Mills College. In the late 1970s he co-founded the Love of Life Orchestra with David Van Tieghem, a New York group whose circle included Arthur Russell, Rhys Chatham, Kathy Acker and Peter Zummo, and he has written for opera, theatre and dance. Gordon earlier studied composition at UC San Diego with Kenneth Gaburo and Roger Reynolds. His album Star Jaws came out on Lovely Music in 1978.