AMos Gillespie

2019-2024 Composer-in-residence

Amos’ music has been heard on WFMT in Chicago, WQXR in New York City and PBS. His music spans a wide range of genres including chamber and orchestra concert music, jazz, as well as music for film, theater and dance. He has work included on eight different albums, two of which are solo albums. His music has been commissioned and performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Third Millennium Ensemble, Barkada Saxophone Quartet, Chicago Q Ensemble, Access Contemporary Music (ACM), and the Chicago Composers Orchestra among many others.

Amos’ music has been heard at various venues and Festivals around the world including The Ear Taxi Festival, Preston Bradley Hall Salon Series, Illinois Musicians Festival at Grant Park, North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, An Die Musik, Music Institute of Chicago, Court Theatre, and the Green Mill among others.

Amos has received special recognition and finalist awards from ASCAP, League of Composers (ISCM), American Prize, Columbia Orchestra, the Macarthur Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council, and has won numerous grants including the 2013 and 2016 IAS professional development grant through the Illinois Arts Council, a Lucerne fellowship through the Chicago sister cities program and the Swiss benevolent society, as well as the 2008 Evanston Cultural Arts Grant and several Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program Grants (CAAP).

As a saxophonist Amos has performed with New Millennium Orchestra, Access Contemporary Music (ACM), Hard Art Groop, Lakeshore Rush Ensemble and the Gillespie Chamber Quartet, among others.