McFAMI

Jeremy Gill, Conductor

Jeremy Gill was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1975. After years of private musical studies in oboe, piano and composition, he attended the Eastman School of Music degree, from which he received a Bachelor of Music in music composition in 1996. That same year he began work towards a PhD in music composition at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon his arrival in Philadelphia, he became the assistant to Maestro Richard Westerfield with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra (at the latter’s invitation), and from 1997-1999 conducted the Messiah College Symphony Orchestra. He received his doctorate in 2000. Since then, he has served on the music theory faculties of West Chester University (also conducting the orchestra there from 2002-2003) and Temple University, where he currently holds a Dean’s Appointment position.

As a composer, Jeremy’s music has received numerous awards, including two each from ASCAP and BMI and a “Music Alive” residency grant from Meet the Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League. He has served as composer-in-residence with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra (2002-2003) and the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival (2004), and his works have been performed by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, the Music Festival Orchestra of the Chautauqua Institute, the Casals Quartett, the Bachmann-Klibonoff-Fridman Trio, Network for New Music, and the Kimmel Center, among others, most of these works being commissioned by or for the presenters.

Jeremy spends his summers conducting opera with the Atlantic Coast Opera Festival; he has been with them from their first season.