T. GREGORY BLOOMFIELD (he/him/his) is a composer, multimedia artist, writer, and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. His music is heavily influenced by concepts revolving around memory and dreams, often blurring, fracturing, and mangling gestures and sonic environments to confuse, yet satisfy the listener. Striving to cultivate deep reflection and pondering, he works to balance the abstract with the concrete, soothe and unsettle the ears, and draw out deeper, repressed memories from audiences and allowing them to indulge in their most surrealist fantasies. Conceptually inspired by jazz, he often deals with improvisation through free-time and aleatoric notation, the manipulation of density through harmony and voicing, and collective virtuosity. His projects are often musical reflections and responses to other art forms and social issues alike.

Ty is the Edwin B. Garrigues Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, pursuing graduate studies in music composition. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, and a Bachelor’s degree from Illinois State University. The recipient of a 2026 Copland House Residency Award, the 2025 GSVC Karen Slack Commissioning Prize, the No Divide Kansas City CAYA fellowship, and a three-time finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Award, he has been a participant at programs, including the Edward T. Cone Institute at Princeton University, the American Composers Orchestra Earshot New Music Readings, the Composers Conference as a Fromm Foundation Fellow, a JACK Studio Artist. 

Notable recent projects include “In Love With Something That Never Existed”, written for TAK Ensemble about shamelessly indulging in daydreams; and “Too Difficult to Forget”, co-commissioned by the George Shirley Vocal Competition, NATS, and the Cincinnati Song Initiative inspired by painful recollections of pleasant memories, masterfully delivered and premiered by bass-bartione Justice Yates (Chicago Lyric Opera) in May 2026. Ty has often worked across disciplines, including visual artist Kyree “Spxrit” Saintillus, poet Diepreye, and choreographer Oscar Trujillo and the movers of the Owen/Cox Dance Group. Upcoming compositions include a new orchestral work commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra to be premiered at Carnegie Hall in the 2028/2029 season, heavily inspired by the lyrics and emotional content of songs by Marvin Gaye; a new work for piano trio and dance for Ensemble Vim to be choreographed and performed by Lauri Stallings and Glo ATL, respectively, about missing third places in modern communities; a new orchestral work to be premiered by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ken-David Masur; and a song for University of Michigan DMA candidate Tyrese Byrd.

His music has been featured by the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Wimbledon International Music Festival, Nief-Norf, George Shirley Vocal Competition, CBDNA, Heidelberg University New Music Festival, U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, International Trombone Festival, Dublin International Chamber Music Festival, International Clarinet Association New Music Weekend, and Red Note New Music Festival, and has been commissioned and performed by renowned artists such as Opera Philadelphia, New Jersey Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, TAK Ensemble, the Rhythm Method, Hypercube, Unheard-Of//Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Matt Albert, Lindsay Kesselman, Justice Yates, and Grace Ryan.

He is originally from Chicago, IL, and enjoys spending his free time writing short stories, reading biographies, playing card and board games, and poorly improvising on the piano. (Headshot Credit: SinYu Deng)