Jeremy first started playing piano when he was 9 years old and was a student of William Riddlespurger, who played in the Berlin Philharmonic. Under Riddlespurger, he learned Classical music and received training to become a concert pianist but later discovered a passion for songwriting and learning other instruments. This pivoted his career path toward working as an arranger, composer and session musician.
He has played for several bands including Progressive Metal band, Wreck of Time, which he joined in 2010. As a keyboardist, he played on their albums, From Sand Pt. 1 and From Sand Pt. 2. 242 is his favorite song because of its psychedelic, progressive and cinematic affect and he recorded his first solo in the song, She’s Made from Sand. His most memorable performance with Wreck of Time was opening for Marty Friedman at The Whiskey A Go Go in LA.
In 2012, he joined the underground Punk band, Sleepcycle, and has written several albums with them where he plays bass, keyboard and sings backup vocals. Over the years, they have been playing the local circuit in Monterey, and in 2024, they released their single, Lazuli, as a precursor to a full-length album.
Jeremy has been a member of Curtail The Noise since May 2020, and has written many keyboard, synthesizer and orchestral arrangements with melodies that merge Metal and Classical music. In Pirate Radio, this can be heard most notably in his compositions for Dragon’s Den, No Remorse and Leading The Charge. In his opinion, CTN is able to achieve a cinematic quality because it does not constrain itself to a certain genre. The songs create an atmosphere, and while they each have a different ethos, the energy is the same across the entire album.
In his words, “Our first album has been an enlightening experience for me. There’s a unique approach in this band for composition that allows its members to realize their creative potential and experiment with different music styles. It’s the perfect place for me because it appeals to the way I engage with music arrangements, and I have an unusual amount of creative freedom. I’m particularly excited about the song, No Remorse. I feel like it demonstrates the scope of intensity that these songs can achieve, and I had a lot of fun playing the keyboard solo.”
Jeremy is also a music instructor where he teaches all levels of musicians on a variety of instruments including piano, guitar and drums. As a multi-instrumentalist, he has a broader perspective of songwriting. He often arranges and composes beyond his role as a keyboardist because he understands how the instruments will complement and interact with each other in a composition.
