Internationally renowned conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee is known worldwide for his catalogue of many dozens of recordings, almost all of these since 1994 with Naxos. These include the complete orchestral music of Igor Markevitch and of Edgard Varèse; most of the symphonies and orchestral works of George Rochberg (a project still in progress); and, since their first collaborations in Kyiv in 2016, the present series of music of Valentin Silvestrov. Other prize-winning recordings include the music of Hans Werner Henze, Ottorino Respighi, Dmitry Shostakovich, Larry Sitsky (his opera The Golem), Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Bliss and Richard Strauss.
His musicianship has been recognised by the Sydney Critics ‘Best Conductor’ award for his work with the then Australian Opera (now Opera Australia), by five GRAMMY Award nominations, multiple nominations for other major awards such as Cannes and Echo Klassik; and by the Pizzicato Prize in Luxembourg.
His history and close associations with many orchestras include Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Germany, England, Australia, the United States, Lithuania, the Republic of Georgia, Russia, France, Switzerland, the Havana Philharmonic (Cuba), and the Kyiv Philharmonic, Presidential Orchestra and Kyiv Chamber Orchestra in Ukraine.
Primarily a composer, Lyndon-Gee won the Onassis Prize in Athens for his ballet score Il Poeta muore (‘The Poet Dies’), based on the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini and on Loris Jacopo Bononi’s book of the same title. The Australian National Critics awarded him ‘Artist of the Year’ for his choral-orchestral Hymn for Sarum: Te Deum; and, also in Australia, he won the Spivakovsky prize for his Poema per Gaspara Stampa, honouring Italy’s great 16th-century female poet. Numerous other works led to two MacDowell Fellowships in the USA; to a Paul Sacher Foundation Fellowship, and (for his writing about music) to multiple Visiting Scholar invitations to the Berenson Library at Villa I Tatti, Florence.
He is currently working on a concerto for violin that will be entitled Mémorial pour Pierre, slated for its premiere in November 2024 in Vilnius.