Geoffrey Gordon's list of works includes orchestral and chamber music, as well as scores for theater, film and dance. His music has been called "brilliant" Philadelphia Inquirer), “stunning" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), "wonderfully idiomatic" (Salt Lake Tribune), "haunting" (Strings Magazine) and “remarkable” (Fanfare).

During the past year, Gordon's works were performed more than fifty times on three continents. He has been nominated for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Elise Stoeger Prize, which honors achievement in chamber music composition and has been the recipient of the Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship in Music Composition.
His work has been funded by the Barlow Endowment, the National Endowment for the Arts, the United Performing Arts Fund, the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, the MacArthur Foundation, the American Music Center, the Abelson Foundation, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and the Mary Flagler Charitable Trust. He has been in residence at the La Napoule Arts Foundation in Cannes and at the Cliff Dweller Club in Chicago.

Gordon's large-scale orchestral work Mis en Scene was selected for the Minnesota Orchestra’s prestigious Perfect Pitch program. The Riverside Symphony, in residence at Columbia University, toured the United States with the Monteverdi-inspired, An Imagined Poussin Triptych; and the Milwaukee Symphony commissioned Milleniumianna to celebrate the new century. Cool RED Cool, a jazz-tinged chamber work for seven players, won the 2000 Andy Warhol Social Observer Prize.

In that same year, he received a Fellowship to the highly regarded Composers Conference at Wellesley College, where his chamber work, Sonata da Chroma, was performed and recorded. A concert devoted to Gordon’s works was a part of the NorthRiver Music Series at the Greenwich House in New York City, on 11 March, 2004. He has been featured on the cover of M Magazine, and his work has been published in the Oregon Literary Review.

He is a 2003-04 recipient of an American Composers Forum (JCCP) commission, funding a new work for Brazilian recorder virtuoso Clea Galhano, and harpsichordist Vivian Montgomery. Echoes of Ferrara will premiere in Boston and Minneapolis in March, 2006. He is also the 2004 winner of the Connecticut State Music Teachers Association commission competition. A Canticle in Shards, for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and piano, premiered in Hartford, Connecticut, in November, 2005. He is the inaugural winner of the Lester S. Abelson Foundation Commission Prize. administered through the Chicago Composers Forum. A new work for soprano and mixed chamber ensemble, Fallen Eve, after the poetry of Ted Hughes, premiered on the International Contemporary Ensemble’s 2005-06 concert season. Additional performances are scheduled for Paris and Washington, DC--including the Library of Congress and the French Chancellery--as part of a planned collaboration between Ensemble Aleph and the Contemporary Music Forum, in early 2006. The Avalon String Quartet have commissioned a new work for the 2006-07 concert season.

Gordon is a 2004 winner of a Barlow Endowment commission, through which he has composed a new work for Duo46, a Cyprus-based guitar and violin duo in residence at Eastern Mediterranean University. The new piece, Fancywork, will premiere as part of the Cortona Contemporary Music Festival, outside Florence, Italy, on 16 July, 2006. A series of US performances, including the US premiere at Sundin Hall in Minneapolis in September, 2006 will follow. Duo46 plans to record the work next year. Aguava’ New Music Studio will tour with Love Among the Ruins, for SATB and a mixed ensemble, during the 2006-07 season. A new work for Aguava’ is planned for 2007.

The Channel Islands Ballet opened their 2002-03 season with a revival of Gordon’s three act ballet after Garcìa Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba. Interiors of a Courtyard, commissioned for the German guitar Duo Ahlert & Schwab and published by Wolfhead Music in August, 2005, premiered at the La Guitarra Festival in California in September, 2003; additional performances, including a national radio broadcast on WFMT in Chicago and a concert at Sundin Music Hall in Minneapolis, followed. La tristesse durera toujours, commissioned by Ensemble Aleph, premiered in connection with joint composer/ensemble residencies at the University of Pittsburgh and Brigham Young University in March, 2004.
The European premiere, as part of Ensemble Aleph's subscription season, took place at the Theatre Dunois in Paris in May, 2004. L’Ensemble Portique gave a series of premiere performances of Wrecked Angels (flute, cello and guitar), commissioned for their inaugural season, in May, 2003; the work was featured on the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont, in July, 2004. A new work commissioned for UK-based ensemble Passacaglia, Stanza della Segnatura (after the Raphael frescoes in the Vatican), featured on a 2004 US tour; the UK premiere is planned for Wigmore Hall, London, in 2006-07. (The work will be published by the UK-based Peacock Press.)

In 2007, Gordon will participate in a ground-breaking program, serving as composer-in-residence at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. Additional collaborations for 2007 and beyond include a new concerto for recorder virtuoso Antje Hensel and a piano concerto for new music specialist Emanuele Arciuli.