Matthew Gemmill is a Lecturer in Vocal Coaching and Collaborative Piano at the University of Florida. He previously held faculty appointments at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Wheaton College (IL), and Roosevelt University. He has also 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. Gemmill received an Artist Diploma with distinction at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and his Master of Music from the University of Michigan. He is currently completing a Doctorate in Collaborative Piano at Indiana University.
In demand as a collaborator with singers, Gemmill has appeared in song recitals at the Chicago Collaborative Works Festival, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he was twice a piano fellow. Recital partners include Michelle Areyzaga, Kristina Bachrach, Emily Fons, Megan Esther Grey, and Richard Ollarsaba. In 2020, his performances of songs and chamber music by Detlev Glanert at the Barbican Centre in London were broadcast on the BBC.
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. His other opera credits include productions at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Cedar Rapids Opera, and Indiana University, as well as an apprenticeship with the Merola Opera Center at San Francisco Opera.
Also passionate about choral music, Gemmill has performed with choirs throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe.
His mentors and teachers include Eugene Asti, Iain Burnside, Chih-Yi Chen, Julius Drake, Anne Epperson, Daniel Paul Horn, Martin Katz, and Kevin Murphy.