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Jeremy Gill
Composer

The music of American composer, conductor and pianist Jeremy Gill is celebrated for its emotional breadth and diversity of expression. His vocal music ranges from “vibrant settings” of texts by Blaise Pascal (Gramophone) for vocal sextet through song settings of texts by Italo Calvino, Anne Carson, Ann Patchett, and Georg Trakl to “vividly colored” (The New York Times) dramatic reworkings of ancient Greek texts and modern authors like Don Nigro and Michael Zand. His orchestral music is “replete with imaginative textures” (The Dallas Morning News) and includes concertos, tone poems and symphonies.

Notable recent premieres include Tout le monde à la fois, an Eastman Centennial commission for massed oboes, oboes dʼamour, English horns, bassoons, and contrabassoons; Corvus Mythicus, commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the installation of Dutch artist Arie Van Selmʼs “Crow” sculpture at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas; Motherwhere: Bagatelles for Strings, after Bán, a concerto for string quartet and string orchestra, commissioned by New York Classical Players for the Grammy-winning Parker Quartet; Concerto dʼavorio, a four-hand piano concerto premiered by Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner with the Chautauqua Symphony under JoAnn Falletta; and The Journey, premiered by soprano Marianna Suri, bass-baritone Chuma Sijeqa, and the Citizens of the World Choir under Jeremyʼs direction at the Illuminate Rotherhithe migration festival in London. The Journey was selected to close Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2022, also in London, featuring the same cast.

The 2024–25 season features world premieres with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, soprano Robin Johannsen and the Harrisburg Symphony, and pianist Anna Kijanowska. He has served as the composer-in-residence with Chautauqua Opera, the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival.