Tyler Gilmore composes chamber music ranging from jazz to modern classical. He leads Ninth and Lincoln, an orchestra that fuses big band sounds, 20th century symphonic influences and electronic textures.

Tyler has written and conducted for big band, studio orchestra, symphonic wind ensemble, string quartet, brass quintet and more.

He won the 2009 ASCAP/Columbia College Commission in Honor of Hank Jones and won the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award in 2008, 2009, and 2010. His music has been reviewed in DownBeat and performed by Jon Faddis’s Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Bobby Watson and The UMKC Concert Jazz Ensemble. The University of Northern Colorado Jazz Band I, The Playground Ensemble, and The Henry Mancini Institute Overture Orchestra, among others. His work is published by UNC Jazz Press and Minor Ninth Music.

He has performed for four years with Ninth and Lincoln, including a monthly residency at Dazzle Jazz in Denver since 2006. He produced the band’s self-titled debut in 2008. A second album, “Static Line” is due in June 2011. He has worked with such jazz talent as Cuong Vu, Matt Wilson, Ron Miles, Ken Filiano, and John Fedchock.

Tyler grew up in rural Wyoming, studied music at the University of Northern Colorado and is now based in Boston. In the Winter of 2010 he was an artist in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska.