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ABOUT
T. Gregory Bloomfield (he/him/his) is a composer dedicated to connecting music to our relationships to memory, childhood, love, and culture. His works involve the distortion of time and obscures melodies to create hallucinogenic atmospheres 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.
Ty Bloomfield is the Edwin B. Garrigues Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, pursuing an Artist Diploma in Music Composition under the guidance of esteemed composers Amy Beth Kirsten, Steven Mackey, Nick DiBerardino, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Elijah Daniel Smith. He received a B.M. in Composition from Illinois State University, an M.M. from the University of Michigan as the Dorothy Greenwald Fellow. His principal mentors included Bright Sheng and Carl Schimmel.
Ty has kept consistent work as an educator and curator, fueling his creative practices through a wealth of new approaches. He is currently a Teaching Artist for Opera Philadelphia and the Curtis Institute of Music, and recently began his collegiate teaching career as a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University for the 2025-2026 academic year. Previous positions include serving on the teaching faculties at the Ypsilanti Youth Orchestra, New Music New Communities, Music Creators Academy, and the Community School for the Arts. While in Ann Arbor, MI, he served emerging composers as the Artistic Director of the contemporary music ensemble, Syntax New Music, and by curating the New Art//New Music initiative with the Prison Creative Arts Project, commissioning, premiering, and recording nearly a dozen new works by young musicians.
Bloomfield has been grateful to compose works for and have collaborated with a wide variety of talented creatives and artists, including the New Jersey Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, TAK Ensemble, JACK Quartet, the Rhythm Method, KAIA String Quartet, Unheard-Of//Ensemble, violinist Matt Albert, soprano Lindsay Kesselman, bass-baritone Justice Yates, and mezzo-soprano Grace Ryan, among many others. Highly invested in interdisciplinary collaborations, dance in particular, he has worked with the Owen/Cox Dance Group and glo platform, alongside choreographers Oscar Trujillo and Lauri Stallings, respectively. His works have been performed at notable venues and festivals such as the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Dublin International Chamber Music Festival, CBDNA, U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, Nief-Norf, the International Trombone Festival, the ICA New Music Weekend, and the Red Note New Music Festival. Upcoming projects include a new work for the American Composers Orchestra to be premiered at Carnegie Hall and an electroacoustic work for the .abaceda new music ensemble for the Bled Contemporary Music Week.
He is the recipient of the ACO Earshot Commission, Harvard University Fromm Foundation Fellowship, GSVC Karen Slack Prize, three finalist placements for the ASCAP Morton Gould Award, Runner-Up for the MMTA Composition Contest, and a No Divide Kansas City CAYA Fellowship. He is an alumnus of notable programs, including the American Composers Orchestra EarShot New Music Readings, the Edward T. Cone Institute at Princeton University, the Composers Conference at Avaloch Farm, and the JACK Studio as a workshop participant.