Ricky Ian Gordon is a composer of song, opera, musical theater and film scores. His works for the theater include Autumn Valentine (1992), States Of Independence (1993), Stonewall/ Night Variations (1994), Only Heaven (1995), The Tibetan Book Of The Dead (1996), Dream True (1999), and My Life With Albertine (2003). His collaboration with choreographer Sean Curran, Art Song Dance, premiered at The Joyce Theater in New York in June 2005, and in October his song cycle Orpheus and Euridice premiered at Lincoln Center. His songs have been commissioned, sung and recorded by opera and musical theater singers alike, including Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw and Audra McDonald. He's currently at work on an opera of The Grapes Of Wrath with Michael Korie.

I interviewed Ricky in his Manhattan home in 2005.