The music of Jeremy Gill is acclaimed for its expressive power and captivating drama. Described as “a great talent” (Harrisburg Patriot News) whose music is “intricate and carefully wrought” (Philadelphia Music Makers), his compositions include orchestral, chamber and vocal music. His music has been performed by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Harrisburg Symphony, and the Chautauqua Music Festival Orchestra, among others, and has been commissioned by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the American Composers Forum, Network for New Music, Market Square Concerts and Lois Grass. He has received awards and grants from BMI, ASCAP, the American Symphony Orchestra League, and Meet the Composer. His chamber music has been premiered by such distinguished artists as the Parker String Quartet, the Bachmann-Klibonoff-Fridman Trio, the Casals Quartet, flutist Mimi Stillman, and pianists Stephen Gosling and Matthew Bengtson. He has been the composer-in-residence with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival.

Mr. Gill’s 2007-08 premieres include Eliot Fragments (for Carter) for solo piano, commissioned by Network for New Music to celebrate Elliott Carter's 100th year and described in The Philadelphia Inquirer as “superb…stark, explosive sound pictures”; In Paradisum: if there are any heavens, a choral work for the Eakins Vocal Consort and Dreamland for baritone, piccolo, violin, and piano for the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series. Book of Hours, a large work written for pianist Peter Orth, will also have its debut. His 2008-09 season commissions include a work for flute, cello, piano and voice for the Dolce Suono Trio (Mimi Stillman, flute; Yumi Kendall, cello; Charles Abramovic, piano) with Donna Morein, mezzo-soprano, as well as a premiere by the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra of his Symphony No. 1, written in 1999. His first CD of chamber music, to be released in 2008 on Albany Records, includes the world premiere recordings of his 25 with the Parker String Quartet, Parabasis with flutist Mimi Stillman and pianist Charles Abramovic, and Suite for Brass with the Extension Ensemble. Also in 2008, his Music for Kites for flute and guitar will be released by Mimi Stillman, flute and Allen Krantz, guitar, on their CD for the DTR label.

Mr. Gill received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelors in Music from the Eastman School of Music. His teachers include many of the most important contemporary American composers, including George Crumb, George Rochberg, Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Rouse, Donald Erb, and Samuel Adler.

In addition to composing, Mr. Gill is active as a conductor, performer, educator, and scholar. His past conducting positions include Assistant Conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the Atlantic Coast Opera Festival and the orchestras of West Chester University and Messiah College. For the 2008-09 season, he will serve as the conductor of the Dickinson College Orchestra in Carlisle, PA. Writing in the New Jersey Courier-Post, Robert Baxter described his 2005 opera debut with Die Fledermaus as “a sprightly, lilting musical performance,” and that, “guided by Gill’s deft hand, the music gleamed.” He has appeared regularly as conductor and pianist for the Penn Composers Guild concerts at the Curtis Institute of Music. As pianist and harpsichordist, he is a core musician of the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series, for which he has also given pre-concert lectures, moderated a panel discussion, “Spotlight on Philadelphia Composers” with panelists George Crumb, Charles Abramovic, and Curt Cacioppo, and currently serves on its Board of Directors. Mr. Gill is a Lecturer in Music Theory at Temple University. In 2007 he co-founded, with composer and entrepreneur Greg Wilder, philadelphiacamerata.com, a website devoted to the analysis of contemporary music and culture.