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” (Gramophone) of texts by Blaise Pascal 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 featured the world premieres of Epiphanies, a set of five orchestral songs composed for soprano Robin Johannsen and the Harrisburg Symphony, Four Legends from the Silmarillion, an hour-long set of four tone poems commissioned by Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Widersprüche, a trio for clarinet, horn, and timpani commissioned by the Othmar Schoeck Festival and premiered during the 2025 Festival in Brunnen, Switzerland. Other international premieres during the 2024–25 season included the world, Polish, and Swiss premieres of Anna Dreams of Mazurkas by pianist Anna Kijanowska, and the German premiere of Helian by Johannes Held and Jeremy at the celebrated Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin.

During the summer of 2025 Chautauqua Opera Company presented a public workshop production of Ida by Lamplight, a short opera commissioned by COC to a libretto by Jerre Dye. The world premiere of the orchestrated and staged version of Ida by Lamplight will take place in July 2026 under the direction of COC General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood in the Chautauqua Amphitheatre.

Other recent premieres include Tout le monde à la fois (2022), an Eastman Centennial work for massed oboes, oboes dʼamour, English horns, bassoons, and contrabassoons, commissioned by Richard Killmer and premiered by the Eastman Schoolʼs double reeds; Corvus Mythicus (2021), commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the installation of Dutch artist Arie Van Selmʼs Crow sculpture at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas; Motherwhere: Bagatelles for Strings, after Bán (2021), a concerto for string quartet and string orchestra commissioned by New York Classical Players for the Parker Quartet; and The Journey (2019), premiered by soprano Marianna Suri, bass-baritone Chuma Sijeqa, and the Citizens of the World Choir under Jeremyʼs direction at the Illuminate Rotherhithe migration festival in London. The Journey was selected to close Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2022, also in London, featuring the same cast.

Recordings of Jeremyʼs music are available from Albany Records, BMOP/sound, Czech Radio, DUX, Open G Records, Musica Solis, and Innova Recordings. These have garnered extensive praise, both nationally and internationally. Deemed “a fine pianist” by the New York Times, Jeremy regularly appears as a pianist and conductor in music of his own and by his contemporaries. He has been a featured performer at major U.S. venues including Calderwood Hall (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), the Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, National Sawdust, the Mansion at Strathmore, and internationally at the Museo dʼArte Orientale in Genoa, Italy; Old Town Hall in Brno, Czech Republic; the Cockpit Theatre in London, UK; Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin, Germany; and Elvermose and Mantziussalen in Denmark.

Jeremy has conducted many world premieres with the Dolce Suono Ensemble, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Network for New Music, and the Tactus Ensemble of Manhattan School of Music, among others. He has served as an assistant conductor for Juilliard Opera (2018), and guest conductor for the Tactus Ensemble (2018–22 and 2025). During the 2019–20 season he conducted the chamber and main stage operas for NYU Steinhardtʼs Vocal Performance program.

Born in Harrisburg, PA in 1975, Jeremy studied oboe, piano, and composition before entering the Eastman School of Music. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, and studied internationally at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau (1993) and the Czech-American Summer Music Institute (1999). His principal teachers include Samuel Adler, George Crumb, Robert Lau, Yinam Leef, David Liptak, James Primosch, Jay Reise, George Rochberg, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, and Anna Weesner. He has served as the Composer in Residence with Chautauqua Opera, the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival. Jeremy has received major awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, BMI, and the League of American Orchestras, and has enjoyed artist residencies at Bogliasco, Chautauqua Opera, Copland House, the MacDowell Colony, Villa Schoeck, and Willapa Bay. He edited A Dance of Polar Opposites, a theoretical-philosophical work written between 1955–2005 by George Rochberg, published by the University of Rochester Press in 2012.