Gordon's background encompasses many years as a performing musician, teacher and composer. He has won awards from the American Song Festival and is featured as pianist/arranger on Oakley Record's Christmas and Romantic Series, Lake Shore Records' Classics of the Stage Series, and Christmas For a New Age CD. His impressionistic album "New England Memories", has achieved good success on the East Coast.

He is currently introducing his new patriotic-themed multi-media symphonic experience, "A Sonic Portrait", along with "December Nights", a multi-faceted symphonic holiday presentation. Recently, the world premiere of his impressionistic symphonic concert band work "Skiball" was performed by the University of Illinois Symphonic Band. He resides in Chicago with his wife and two sons.