Draft:Jeremy Gill

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Jeremy Gill
Born
Jeremy Thomas Gill

(1975-01-20) January 20, 1975 (age 50)
OriginHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
GenresContemporary classical
InstrumentPiano
Websitewww.jeremytgill.com

Jeremy Thomas Gill (born January 20, 1975) is an American composer.

Education

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Gill attended the Eastman School of Music, where he was awarded the Bernard Rogers Prize (1995) and the McCurdy Prize (1996).[1] He studied with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a PhD in 2000.[2][3] Private composition study with George Rochberg, which began in 1995, was particularly formative.[4]

Career

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Early recognition for Gillʼs work came from the BMI Foundation’s Student Composer Awards in 1992 and 1995,[5] and a Music Alive Composer Residency with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in 2002–2003.[6] Gill has a long-standing association with the Parker Quartet, having written three works for them: 25, commissioned by Lois Lehrman Grass for Market Square Concerts;[7] Capriccio, commissioned by Chamber Music America;[8] and Motherwhere commissioned by New York Classical Players.[9] Gill was one of ten composers selected to represent the United States at the 28th Havana Festival of Contemporary Music in Cuba in 2015.[10] He was the inaugural Composer in Residence with Chautauqua Opera Company[11] and was awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2020.[12] Gill has written about music and culture for New Music USA[13] and Music & Musical Performance.[14] He edited George Rochbergʼs A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Music Language.[15]

Music

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Gillʼs music is noted for its wide range of influences,[16] technical virtuosity,[17] and dramatic richness.[3] His artistic models include music of Ancient Greece[18] through living writers, including the Hungarian Zsófia Bán.[19]

Select principal works

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Orchestral music

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Solo and chamber music

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Vocal music

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  • Six Pensées de Pascal (2017), settings for six solo singers recorded by Variant 6[30]
  • Whitman Portrait (2014), six songs for six singers and piano[17]
  • Letters from Quebec to Providence in the Rain (2014), chamber opera to an original libretto by Jeremy Gill adapted from the play by Don Nigro[31]
  • Helian (2009), song cycle setting poem of the same name by Georg Trakl, recorded by Jonathan Hays and Jeremy Gill[28]
  • Ode (2008), dramatic cantata setting texts by Pindar, Mesomedes, and others, given its New York premiere by Lucy Shelton and the Dolce Suono Ensemble[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Eastman School of Music Student Achievements". Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  2. ^ Murray, Lucy Miller (2015). Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4422-4342-2.
  3. ^ a b c d e Burwasser, Peter (20 August 2018). "A singular voice of many colors 'Jeremy Gill: Before the Wresting Tides,' by Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Gil Rose". Broad Street Review. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  4. ^ Wlodarski, Amy Lynn (2019). George Rochberg, American Composer: Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. p. 42-44. ISBN 978-1580469470.
  5. ^ "BMI Student Composers' Awards scores 1951-2019". Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  6. ^ "Music Alive". 28 May 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  7. ^ Murray, Lucy Miller (2015). Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4422-4342-2.
  8. ^ "Album Capriccio". Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  9. ^ Gail Wein (23 March 2022). "April 1: World premiere by Jeremy Gill for Parker Quartet". Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  10. ^ Anastasia Tsioulcas (9 December 2015). "A new music journey from the U.S. to Havana". NPR. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  11. ^ "Composers & the Voice: Partnerships". American Opera Project. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  12. ^ "All Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  13. ^ Jeremy Gill (16 December 2015). "A Week in Havana". New Music USA. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  14. ^ Gill, Jeremy (March 2024). "Orthography". Music & Musical Performance: An International Journal. 1 (5). FIU Digital Commons. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  15. ^ Rochberg, George (2012). Gill, Jeremy (ed.). A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580464130.}}
  16. ^ Fergus McIntosh (28 March 2019). "Recitals: Jeremy Gill". The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  17. ^ a b c d Christian Carey (4 April 2019). "Jeremy Gill: Whitman, Pascal, and Varieties of Variations". Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  18. ^ a b Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna da (10 December 2013). "The New, in Context, for Ear, Heart and Brain". The New York Times. New York, NY. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  19. ^ "Zsófia Bán's Night School Adapted for Concerto in NYC". 25 March 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  20. ^ Aaron Keebaugh (13 May 2025). "Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project--Music for the Now". The Arts Fuse. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  21. ^ Adam Sherkin (12 May 2022). "The Parker Quartet premieres Jeremy Gill's Motherwhere". Sequenza21. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  22. ^ Val Lick (29 July 2019). "Ivory Keys, Ivory Doors: JoAnn Falletta and Soloists Orion Weiss and Shai Wosner to Premiere Gill Composition and Perform Beloved Classic". The Chautauquan Daily. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  23. ^ "The Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra scores a romance between the city and its residents". Penn Live. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
  24. ^ Wayne Lee Gay (30 January 2016). "Jaap van Zweden's First Step Out the Door Features a DSO Rarity: New Music". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
  25. ^ "Encomium of John Dowland by Jeremy Gill". YouTube. 25 May 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  26. ^ Leen, John (5 April 2022). "Making a Case for the Unfamiliar". The Boston Musical Intelligencer. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  27. ^ Joan Reinthaler (2 April 2014). "Parker Quartet meets the challenge of Jeremy Gill's music in Strathmore performance". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  28. ^ a b "Jeremy Gill: Book of Hours/Helian". Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  29. ^ "Jeremy Gill – Chamber Music". Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  30. ^ Donald Rosenberg (April 2022). "Variant 6: New Suns". Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  31. ^ Charles Donelan (5 January 2017). "UCSB Artists Perform in Chamber Opera Competition". Retrieved 12 August 2025.
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