Gordon Cree
GORDON CREE was born in Ayrshire and was classically trained in piano and singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. In a career that now spans more than two decades, he has achieved a formidable reputation, both as a solo artiste and as a pianist/musical director, as well as being much in demand as arranger, orchestrator and occasional conductor for orchestras throughout the world, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, The BBC Concert Orchestra, The Halle Orchestra, The Scottish Festival Orchestra, The Scottish Concert Orchestra, The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, The Halle Orchestra, The Auckland Sinfonia (New Zealand), The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (Australia), L’Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon (France) and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra (California). He has also worked extensively as personal musical director to several well-known artistes, including Ken Dodd, Roy Hudd, Moira Anderson, Kenneth McKellar, Anita Harris and Paul Daniels.
As a solo artiste he has appeared in concert, cabaret, pantomime and summer season throughout the world, including three seasons at the Nevele Grande Stardust Room (New York), two summer seasons at the Blackpool Wintergardens, countless appearances in “The Good Old Days” at Leeds’ world-famous City Varieties Music Hall, and is a popular regular “Star Guest Performer” aboard the world’s luxury cruise liners.
In 1990 he was awarded the “Scottish Young Organist of the Year” title; in 1997 he won the Sir Hugh S. Roberton Prize for Scots Song; in 2008 he was made a Freeman of the City of Glasgow; in 2009 he was admitted to the British Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicans; in 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Guild of Musicians and Singers; and in April 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Scottish Music Hall and Variety Theatre Society, which has been awarded to several legends of Scottish entertainment, including Jack Milroy, Johnny Beattie and Jimmy Logan.
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