Jay Anthony Gach's instrumental concert music has been performed, recorded and broadcast internationally by orchestras including the Orchestra of Seattle and Seattle Chamber Singers, Krasnoyarsk-Siberian State Philharmonic/ Vladimir Lande; Millennium Symphony Orch./Robert Ian Winstin, St. Paul Chamber Orch./Enrique Diemecke, Brooklyn Philharmonic/Lukas Foss, American Composers Orchestra/Paul Dunkel, Piccola Orchestra ‘900/Simone Vecchia, National Italian Youth Orchestra/Vinko Globokar, City of London Sinfonia, Haydn Chamber Orchestra of London, the Britten Sinfonia Soloists, Pro Arte Ch. Orch./Leon Botstein and by international solo artists including Bulgarian pianist Elitza Harbova, American clarinettist Richard Stoltzman, Canadian cellist Soo Bae and Italian flutist Andrea Ceccomori.
Grants and awards include: the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Astral Foundation (Pew-Bandy) of New York and Philadelphia, Frederick P. Rose Prize, Valentino Bucchi Concorsi Internazionale, Delta Omicron Composition Prize, Dr. J. Howland Auchincloss Society for New Music Composition Prize, New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, Tanglewood Music Centre (Bruno Maderna Fellowship), National Endowment for the Arts, et al. Between 1981 and 1999 he resided and worked in European capitals – Tubingen, Germany; Rome, Italy and London, UK - returning to New York in 2000.
Arrangements and original scores for the educational and commercial media include a children’s musical The Selfish Giant; film score Legends from Bodmin Moor; advertising campaign British Rail “Mind the Doors”; and an animation film The Hurlers,. His biography has appeared in Marquis ‘Who’s Who in America’ since 2006. Mr Gach currently serves as Secretary of the Long Island Composers Alliance.
