Gershon Kingsley

electronic, experimental, avant-garde, moog, musique concrete

Gershon Kingsley (born October 28, 1922, Bochum, Germany as Gotz Gustav Ksinski) a contemporary German American composer, is a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer and founder of the First Moog Quartet, as a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies. Kingsley conducted and arranged many Broadway musicals,and composes for film and for television shows and commercials.Kingsley also composes classical chamber works and his most recent opera, Raoul, was premiered in Bremen in 2008.