Second Violin

Jeremy pursued violin studies in Albany New York, Ann Arbor Michigan, Akron Ohio, and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania before he was hired as a violinist by Kenneth Schermerhorn and began a career in the Nashville Symphony. His favorite performance venues are the Tanglewood Shed, Hill Auditorium, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Symphony Hall in Boston, The Palace Theater of Albany NY, Ryman Auditorium, Carnegie Hall and Schermerhorn Symphony center.

Important teachers such as Kay Nicholas, Lois Lyman, Hamao Fujiwara, Steve Shipps, Alan Bodman, Andres Cardenas helped lay a foundation for him to play violin professionally. Jeremy played for 8 years under the baton of Maestro Kenneth Schermerhorn at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. He has performed under conductors Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Leon Fleisher, Gustav Meier, Eiji Oue, Carl St Clair, Marin Alsop, Michael Guilen, Victoria Bond, John Williams, Leonard Slatkin, Giancarlo Guerrero, Peter Ouindjian, Victor Yampaosky, Ken-David Masur, Jahja Ling, David Robertson, David Alan Miller, Andreas Delfs, David Lockington, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Joann Faletta, John Maucheri, Michael Francis, and many more.

For More than 15 years he led a string quartet which performed in dozens of Nashville schools.  In 2002, he was a founding member which created the grammy nominated group, ALIAS.  In 2007 Jeremy was awarded Nashville Symphony’s John Kolingos award, which he used to further his study of bluegrass music and specifically the lineage between its roots and present day, where he enjoys Nashvilles vibrant bluegrass scene.

He regularly performs in the Nashville Symphony,  having listened and learned just feet from artists such as Ray Charles, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Nickel Creek, CC Winans, Wayne Newton, Randy Newman, John Tesh, Charlie Daniels, Tricia Yearwood, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, no Glen Campbell, Dionne Warwick, Patti Labelle, Roberta Flack, Lee Greenwood, Riders In The Sky, Eddie Arnold, Sarah McLachlan, Roger Daltry, Arturo Sandoval, Brandi Carlisle, Cypress Hill, Idina Menzel, Diana Krall, Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Jessye Norman, Kiri Te Kanawa, Stefan Jackiw, Ray Chen, James Ehnes, Zuill Bailey, Anne Akiko Myers, Vadim Guzman, Jean Yves Thibadet, Hilary Hahn, Joshua Bell, Midori, Gil Shaham, Brian Wilson, Trey Anastasio and many more.