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Composer Jeremy Gill visited the University of Illinois in November 2025 to serve as Composer in Residence for the Illinois Modern Ensemble (IME).
During his November 11 to 19 residency in Illinois with the IME, Jeremy Gill gave a talk at the Composers Forum, coached students on his music, gave a presentation at Unit One, and offered composition lessons. He also rehearsed and conducted IME in concert on November 17. Clarinetist Chris Grymes also came from New York to perform in this concert. The Illinois Modern Ensemble premiered …and everywhere the sea, newly rescored in 2025 for 13 players.
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. His chamber music possesses, at times, a “trance-like intensity” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer); it is “fresh and clever,” and “a compositional tour-de-force” (American Record Guide) that reveals “a rapidly shifting exploration of past, present, and future” (I Care If You Listen).
The 2024–25 season will feature the world premieres of Four Legends from the Silmarillion, an hour-long orchestral tone poem commissioned by Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Epiphanies, a set of five orchestral songs to be premiered by soprano Robin Johannsen and the Harrisburg Symphony. Jeremy will be living and working in Berlin for the first half of the 2024–25 season, and while abroad, will hear the world premiere of Anna Dreams of Mazurkas by Polish pianist Anna Kijanowska in Cieszyn, and will perform the German premiere of his song cycle Helian with baritone Johannes Held at the celebrated Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin.
Article text courtesy of Composition Professor Carlos Carillo and composer Jeremy Gill
