SoundScore Composer Profile
Recent collaborators of American composer, conductor, and pianist Jeremy Gill include conductors JoAnn Falletta, Stuart Malina, Steven Osgood, Gil Rose, and Jaap van Zweden; pianists Ching-Yun Hu, Orion Weiss, and Shai Wosner; the vocal sextet Variant 6, and the Grammy-winning Parker Quartet.
Jeremy has written major works for flutist Mimi Stillman, oboist Erin Hannigan, clarinetist Chris Grymes, and pianist Peter Orth, and the Buffalo Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and Harrisburg Symphony have each commissioned his compositions since 2015. Other commissions have come from The American Opera Project, Chamber Music America, Concert Artists Guild, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and the American Composers Forum. Jeremy has received major awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, BMI, and the League of American Orchestras. Described as “vividly colored” (The New York Times), “replete with imaginative textures” (The Dallas Morning News), and “exhilarating” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Jeremyʼs music has earned him residencies and fellowships with the Bogliasco Foundation (2017), Chautauqua Opera (2016), Copland House (2015), the American Opera Project (2013–14), and the MacDowell Colony (2013), as well as major grants from New Music USA (2017, 2015) and Chamber Music America (2011). Discs dedicated to his chamber, vocal, and orchestral works have been released by Albany Records, BMOP/sound, and Innova Recordings.
Deemed “a fine pianist” by the New York Times, Jeremy regularly appears as a pianist and conductor in music of his own and by his contemporaries. He has been a featured performer at major venues including Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, National Sawdust, the Mansion at Strathmore, and internationally at the Museo dʼArte Orientale in Genova, Italy and Old Town Hall in Brno, Czech Republic. Jeremy has conducted over 35 world premieres featuring artists such as Anthony Roth Costanzo, Eric Owens, Ching-Yun Hu, Evan Hughes, Lucy Shelton, and Randall Scarlata under the auspices of Beth Morrison Projects, the Dolce Suono Ensemble, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Network for New Music, and the Tactus Ensemble of Manhattan School of Music. During the 2018–19 season he served as assistant conductor for Juilliard Operaʼs Turn of the Screw, and guest conductor for Manhattan School of Musicʼs Tactus Ensemble. During the 2019–20 season he conducted the chamber and main stage operas for NYU Steinhardtʼs Vocal Performance program, and returned to conduct MSMʼs Tactus Ensemble in major works by David Del Tredici and Reiko Füting, with both composers present.