Jeremy Gill is a
conductor, composer, and pianist whose activities cover a remarkably
broad range

of musical styles and types. During the 2010-11 season, he enjoyed
performances of his music in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Harrisburg, and appeared as conductor with Ensemble CMN in premieres by
composers Suzanne Sorkin, Gene Coleman, and Richard Belcastro, and the
Dolce Suono Ensemble in a premiere by Fang Man featuring bass-baritone
Eric Owens. As a pianist, he accompanied recitals by flutist Mimi
Stillman and mezzo-soprano Maren Montalbano and performed alongside
pianist Feifei Zhang in selections from Messiaen's Visions de l'amen.
In his first season as Music Director of the Delaware County Symphony,
Jeremy led repertoire ranging from Giovanni Gabrieli to a world premiere
by Carlos Carrillo in a season that included Mahler's Ruckert Lieder
(featuring Maren Montalbano), selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and
Juliet, Scriabin's Piano Concerto (featuring Matthew Bengtson), Holst's
The Planets, and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. In the 2011-12 season,
his second with the orchestra, Jeremy will collaborate with soloists
Mimi Stillman in an area premiere of Shulamit Ran's Voices for a
Flautist with Orchestra, Paul Arnold and Anida Goga in Mozart's
Concertone for Two Violins, and Marcantonio Barone in Beethoven's First
Piano Concerto. Other season highlights include Beethoven's Sixth
Symphony, Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria
von Weber, Shostakovich's First Symphony, Debussy's Iberia, and a world
premiere by Benjamin C.S. Boyle in a concert underwritten by the Musical
Fund Society of Philadelphia.
Premieres of Jeremy's music in 2010-11 included Book of Hours by pianist
Peter Orth in Este, Italy, and 8 Variations and Toccata on "Betzet
Yisrael," commissioned by the Harrisburg Chapter of the American Guild
of Organists and performed by Mark Laubach during their Regional
Convention in Harrisburg, PA. Other performances of his music this
season included Helian with Maren Montalbano, Parabasis with Mimi
Stillman, Soglie, Serenate, Sfere with oboist ToniMarie Marchioni, and
Book of Hours with Feifei Zhang. 2011-12 will include multiple
performances of Helian with baritone Jonathan Hays, as well as Eliot
Fragments (for Carter) by Feifei Zhang, and 3 Songs About Words,
commissioned by poet Lucy Miller Murray for soprano Sarah Wolfson, who
will premiere it alongside newly commissioned works by Jake Heggie and
Paul Moravec. Also this season, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and
Concertante will collaborate in presenting CPYB CEO and Resident
Choreographer Alan Hineline's world premiere work set to Jeremy's 2006
composition 25 for string quartet. In 2011, Jeremy was awarded a
commission by Chamber Music America to compose a major new work for the
2010 Grammy-winning Parker Quartet; it will be premiered by them in the
2012-13 season.
Jeremy's second CD was released in 2011 on Albany Records, featuring
Peter Orth on Book of Hours and Jonathan Hays and Jeremy on Helian.
Lauded by Fanfare Magazine, it was listed among the top ten classical
releases of 2011 by Philadelphia City Paper. The Calls of Gravity on New
Focus Recordings was also released this year; featuring the music of
David Laganella and Ensemble CMN, it is Jeremy's first appearance as a
conductor on CD. His first CD of chamber music, released in November
2008 on Albany Records, included the world premiere recordings of his 25
with the Parker Quartet, Parabasis with Mimi Stillman and pianist
Charles Abramovic, and Suite for Brass with the Extension Ensemble.
Peter Burwasser, reviewing this CD in Philadelphia Music Makers, wrote
that “Gill writes with precision and care, intriguing imagination, and a
fearless emotional depth," and the American Record Guide remarked:
“Jeremy Gill has imagination, and his music is well worth hearing,
reading about, and investigating.”
Past performances of note include those by the Rochester Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and the Chautauqua
Music Festival Orchestra. He has been commissioned by Concert Artists
Guild, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the American Composers
Forum, Network for New Music, Market Square Concerts and Lois Lehrman
Grass, and the Dolce Suono Ensemble. He has received awards and grants
from BMI, ASCAP, and the League of American Orchestras and Meet the
Composer. His chamber music has been premiered by such distinguished
artists as the Parker Quartet, the Bachmann-Klibonoff-Fridman Trio, the
Casals Quartet, flutist Mimi Stillman, and pianists Peter Orth, Stephen
Gosling, and Matthew Bengtson. He has served as the
composer-in-residence with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and the
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival.
Jeremy has held teaching positions at Messiah College, West Chester
University of Pennsylvania, Dickinson College, and Temple University,
ultimately achieving the rank of Associate Professor. In 2009, he left
academics to focus on his increasing conducting and composing
opportunities, though he continues to teach composition privately. His
scholarly activities continue apace, as well: he appears regularly as a
lecturer with the Philadelphia Orchestra and as a guest at major music
departments (most recently Boston University and the Peabody Institute),
and in 2011 he completed an edition of A Dance of Polar Opposites, a
theoretical-philosophical work written between 1955-2005 by his former
teacher George Rochberg, to be published by University of Rochester
Press in 2012.