Professional Experience:
Ensemble Leadership/Composer - Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra
Conducting and Recording - Ninth+Lincoln 2nd CD with special guest trumpeter Cuong Vu
Conducting and Recording - Ninth+Lincoln's debut CD on Dazzle Records
Conducting and Recording - Fred Hess Big Band CD "Hold On" on Dazzle Records
Education:
University of Northern Colorado 2000-2005
Bachelors in Music Education
The Henry Mancini Institute 2005
Overture Composer
Composition Teachers:
Alf Clausen, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Art Lande, Cuong Vu, John Fedchock, Maria Schneider, John Hollenbeck, Mike Holober, and Dave Hanson.
Commissions:
“Quiet As Its Kept” for for Jazz Big Band
Commissioned by Bobby Watson, Univ. of Kansas City Missouri
“Uproot” for Symphonic Band
Commissioned by Dr. Richard Mayne, Univ. of Northern Colorado Dir. of Bands
“Piano Roll” - ASCAP/Columbia College “Emerging Composer” 2009 Award/Commission in honor of Hank Jones
Premiered in February 2009 by the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, led by Jon Faddis
“Purple Rain” by Prince, arranged by Tyler Gilmore for Jazz Big Band
Commissioned by Shawn Constantino, Harvard-Westlake Jazz Studies, Hollywood, CA
“Staircase” for Solo Soprano Saxophone & Brass Quintet
Commissioned by Art Bouton, Univ. of Denver Saxophone Instructor
“Rockit” by Herbie Hancock, arranged by Tyler Gilmore for Jazz Big Band
Commissioned by Shawn Constantino, Harvard-Westlake Jazz Studies, Hollywood, CA
Awards:
ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award 2010 for "Giving Full Account"
ASCAP/Columbia College 2009 Award/Commission in honor of Hank Jones
ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award 2009 for "Sketching Restraint"
ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award 2008 for “Your Cent”
Downbeat Student Award for Original Composition – 2006 for “I with Us”
Reviews:
Downbeat Magazine – 3.5 stars
"...a well-programmed and frequently stimulating set that unfolds its layers of sound in striking fashion." – Norman Provizer
Colorado Music Buzz – 5 stars
"Exploring the deepest of harmonic depths opened up by the freedom of jazz-based themes, bandleader Tyler Gilmore steers the ensemble through a lush musical ocean like a modern-day Gil Evans, burgeoned by vigorous winds of acid, fusion, and even electronica." - S. Wilson Skomal
Denver Post
“You can practically hear the currents blasting through the Wind River Canyon near his hometown of Riverton, and the expansive, rockish arrangements really bring something new to big-band charts.” – Bret Saunders
Performances:
Ninth+Lincoln Orchestra – Monthly Performance January 2006-present
Penumbra String Quartet - March 2010 “Veen, Van, Ada”
Professor Art Bouton & The Apollo Brass Quintet at Univ. of Denver – “Staircase”
James Madison University Jazz Big Band – “Clean Sheets”
Metropolitan College of Denver Big Band – “I with Us”
Colorado State University Jazz Big Band – “I with Us”
University of Northern Colorado – “Clean Sheets”
Cherry Creek High School, Denver, Big Band I – “Rockit” & “Your Cent”
Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts, Big Band – “Rockit & “Your Cent”
University of Kansas, Jazz Big Band I – “Clean Sheets”