Gordon Hibberd's teachers included Cecile Genhart, Arthur Balsam, Dora Zaslovsky, and Joseph Fennimore. With Fennimore, he founded and was business manager of "Hear America First," the only concert series in the early 1970s devoted to American Music, programs of which were broadcast on NPR.
Coincidental to his musical endeavors in NYC, he was a computer programmer for Young & Rubicam and worked on Wall Street until 1978, when he accepted a position with a publishing house in San Francisco. He returned east in 1979 to attend Boston's famed North Bennett Street School, the nation's preeminent school for piano technology. Upon graduation from a two-year program, he was chosen to be piano technician at Tanglewood.
Making music reclaimed his full attentions by the mid-1980s, and he has since enjoyed his work as Accompanist for the University at Albany University-Community Chorale and as Staff Accompanist for Schenectady County Community College. Mr. Hibberd is also an accompanist for Ne'imah Jewish Community Chorus, Albany; College of St. Rose Masterworks Chorale, Albany; the Chancel Choir, Albany; First Baptist services, Scotia; and First Presbyterian Church services. He also accompanies for NYSSMA adjudications, recitals, auditions, competitions, lessons, and coachings.