T. Gregory Bloomfield is a composer dedicated to connecting music to our relationships to memory, childhood, love, and culture. Through distorted time and meters, obscured melodies, and delicate and hazy harmonies, he creates a variety of electric, meditative environments for the mind to become lost within. Recognized for his “unpredictable” (Third Coast Review) sound and approaches, his works resemble an eclectic range of mediums, collaborations, and inspirations, regularly working across or becoming inspired by a variety of art forms.
His accolades include the Harvard University Fromm Foundation Fellowship, the George Shirley Vocal Competition’s Karen Slack Prize, an Ensemble Vim Spark Commission, and the One Found Sound Emerging Composer Award. A three-time finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Award, he has been a composer fellow at the Edward T. Cone Institute at Princeton University, was selected for an American Composers Orchestra Earshot New Music Reading, a participant in the NATS Mentorship Program for Composers, and was a JACK Studio fellow in the 2022-2023 season. He has received additional recognition from I-Park, Third Coast Percussion, and Ensemble Istantanea. His music has been featured at various festivals and venues, such as the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Bled Contemporary Music Festival, nief-norf, George Shirley Vocal Competition, CBDNA, Heidelberg University New Music Festival, U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, Ear Taxi New Music Festival, Lake George Music Festival, International Trombone Festival, Briggs Chamber Music Competition, Dublin International Chamber Music Festival, International Clarinet Association New Music Weekend, and the Red Note New Music Festival.
Ty’s compositions have been performed and commissioned by ensembles and artists, including the New Jersey Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Pacific Chamber Orchestra, University of Michigan Philharmonia Orchestra, One Found Sound, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, .abaceda new music ensemble, TAK Ensemble, ensemble vim, JACK Quartet, Hypercube, the Rhythm Method, Unheard-Of//Ensemble, KAIA Quartet, Lati2de, Matt Albert, White Snakes Projects, Cincinnati Song Initiative, and New Music Chicago among many others. Regularly collaborating across disciplines, he is fortunate to work with a variety of wonderful collaborators such as poet Diepreye Amanah, dance companies Glo Platform, Owen/Cox Dance Group, and PART, and choreographers Lauri Stallings and Oscar Trujillo.
As an educator, Ty has taught music composition, theory, and aural skills in a variety of settings. He served as the Adjunct Lecturer of Music Theory at Eastern Michigan University for the 2025-2026 year, and has taught on the faculties of the Ypsilanti Youth Orchestra, New Music New Communities, Music Creators Academy, and the Community School for the Arts. In his work as a curator, he served as the artistic director of the new music ensemble, Syntax, and the concert coordinator of the New Art//New Music initiative with the Prison Creative Arts Project since 2024, commissioning and recording over a dozen new works.
Ty is currently a graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music, studying composition and electronic music. He holds degrees from Illinois State University (BM) and the University of Michigan (MM). His primary teachers include Bright Sheng, Michael Daugherty, Erik Santos, Carl Schimmel, and Roger Zare. He has participated in masterclasses and seminars with Eric Wubbels, Seth Cluett, Levi Lu, Steven Mackey, Curtis Stewart, Valerie Coleman, Huang Rho, Juri Seo, Annika Socoflosky, Carter Williams, Kurt Rohde, Melinda Wagner, Felipe Lara, Alyssa Weinberg, Donnacha Dennehy, Laura Schwendinger, Marc Migo, Quinn Mason, Missy Mazzoli, and Martin Bresnick. A Chicago-native, he is based in Philadelphia, PA.
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