New York-based composer-keyboardist Forrest Eimold (b. 1999) has been hailed as “incredible” and “fearless” by The Boston Musical Intelligencer, “extremely impressive” by Harmonie, and as having “ably responded to the many virtuosic demands" of today’s compositional vanguard by The Washington Post.

 

Whether writing for the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Ensemble Dal Niente, Fonema Consort, Mivos Quartet, National Sawdust Ensemble, and the Wet Ink Ensemble—or performing with ensembles ranging from the Grammy-nominated Trinity Baroque Orchestra to NOVUS NY—Forrest’s work embraces our quantized environment in the hopes of pointing to the unbound world latent within it.

 

Forrest first gained notice at age 13 as the youngest-ever interpreter of Olivier Messiaen’s longest organ work, the nearly two-hour-long Livre du Saint-Sacrement; by age 16, Forrest had performed all five hours’ worth of the composer’s post-1945 organ music. In the years to follow, Forrest’s committed engagement with the music of living composers has led to performance collaborations with such luminaries as Gerald Barry, Michael Finnissy, John Harbison, Molly Joyce, Paola Prestini, and Judith Weir.

 

Furthermore, Forrest's reputation as a sight-reader and score-reader have led to répétiteuring for world premières by the likes of Du Yun, Huang Ruo, Nico Muhly, Emma O’Halloran, Arvo Pärt, and Tyshawn Sorey, nearly all from full score.

 

Compositional honors include the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts from Columbia University, a Density Labs Fellowship from the Juilliard School, a Blueprint Fellowship from National Sawdust, and multiple awards from the National YoungArts Foundation. A publication of Forrest’s organ transcription of Gerald Barry’s Chevaux-de-frise is forthcoming from Schott Music.

 

Forrest has studied with pianists like Thomas Adès, Soyeon Kate Lee, Joanna MacGregor, Julian Martin, and Marc Ryser; with organist John Robinson; and with composers such as Larry Thomas Bell, Zosha di Castri, Georg Friedrich Haas, Laura Kaminsky, David Lang, Rodney Lister, and Eric Wubbels.

 

Having graduated in 2022 from the dual program between the Juilliard School and Columbia University, Forrest currently studies composition at the Yale School of Music with Martin Bresnick. Having served as Music and Organ Scholar at Trinity Church Wall Street (2018–22), Forrest now works as Staff Pianist at the Juilliard School (2021–present).