Jeremy Spindler

Jeremy Spindler's music spans a broad range of mediums including chamber orchestra, string quartet, and electronic media. His music achieves an artful balance of intellect and inspiration; as a result, his works contain a strong element of originality, complexity, and accessibility that speaks to composers and musicians, as well as general audiences. He currently resides in Somerville, MA

Jeremy received the 2004 Leroy Robertson Prize in Music, was the region I winner of the 2010 SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Competition, and a finalist in the 2002 Kubik International Prize in Composition. He has also been a resident at the I-Park Artist Enclave in E. Haddam, CT, and the Dorland Mountain Artist's Colony, in Temecula, CA. In July of 2011, Jeremy will be a fellow at the Wellesley Composers Conference directed by Mario Davidovsky. Jeremy has had the privilege of working with ensembles such as the Lydian String Quartet, Canyonlands New Music Ensemble, Bala Brass, Polaris Brass, and NotaRioutous.

Jeremy has studied with Martin Boykan, David Rakowski, Yu-Hui Chang, Eric Chasalow, Ladislav Kubik, and Morris Rosenzweig among others. He holds a Ph.D and an M.F.A. in music composition & theory from Brandeis University, an M.M. from The University of Utah, and a B.M. from Ball State University. In 2010 he was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship providing time and money to complete his dissertation entitled "Ligeti's Wedge: Expansion, Contraction, Transformation" & an original composition entitled "Concerto for Seven." From 2005 to 2010 he served as the Irving Fine Music Fellow at Brandeis University. His academic interests focus on 20th-century music with an emphasis on György Ligeti. Other scholarly interests include the perception, origin, and sociology of music.

In addition to composing Jeremy also thoroughly enjoys teaching. Over the last eight years Jeremy has had the privilege of teaching and assisting over twenty-five courses at Brandeis, The University of Utah, Ball State and MIT. His experience includes a range of classes including theory, counterpoint, piano-lab, ear-training, and academic writing.