Email:

mgemmill@iu.edu

Department:

Chamber and Collaborative Music

Matthew Gemmill is visiting lecturer in music in chamber and collaborative music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Before coming to Indiana, he earned an Artist Diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. Gemmill was also based for 10 years in Chicago, teaching at Wheaton College and Roosevelt University. He served as faculty at the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago and spent five summers teaching at the Up North Vocal Institute in Boyne City, Michigan.

A frequent pianist for opera, Gemmill supervised music for the premiere of Gregory Spears’ Jason and the Argonauts, a new opera for children commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago, and assisted in Lyric’s production of Fellow Travelers. He joined Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for the company’s 2024 New Works Collective. He also trained as an apprentice artist at San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Center.

In demand as a collaborator with singers, Gemmill appeared in the 2016 Collaborative Works Festival at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. Recital partners include Michelle Areyzaga, Kristina Bachrach, Emily Fons, Megan Esther Grey, and Richard Ollarsaba. Gemmill has accompanied recitals at the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, and the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar. In 2020, his performances of songs and chamber music by Detlev Glanert at the Barbican Centre in London were broadcast on the BBC.

Also passionate about choral music, he has performed with choirs throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe.

Currently completing a doctorate in collaborative piano at the Jacobs School of Music, Gemmill’s mentors and teachers include Eugene Asti, Iain Burnside, Chih-Yi Chen, Julius Drake, Anne Epperson, Daniel Paul Horn, Martin Katz, and Kevin Murphy.