Gordon O'Brien

For the American mobster, see Gordon O'Brien (mobster).

Gordon O'Brien is a Canadian guitarist.

He recently won first prize at the prestigious John Williams International Competition in Darwin, Australia, as well as the $10,000 grand prize in the first Stotsenberg Guitar Competition in Los Angeles. In 1994, he received a full Canada Council artist grant to study with the Cuban guitarist/composer Leo Brouwer in Córdoba, Spain.

Gordon began studying the guitar with Eli Kassner at the age of eight and when eleven years old, he played with the Toronto Symphany Orchestra at Massey Hall under conductor Andrew Davis. That same year he performed at "Guitar 78", one of Toronto's own guitar festivals. He has since performend in the United States, France, England, Australia, New Zealand, China and Martinique. O'Brien, now 40, resides in Diamondhead Mississippi. Currently O'Brien plays before audiences at the Imperial Palace, in Biloxi, Mississippi.

External links

• Guitar Society of Toronto Biography, the source for much of this article

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