BIOGRAPHY

Jeremy Pass has 30 years experience performing and competing in classical piano and cello competitions around the world. Since early childhood he has been trained by renowned teachers in Canada, the USA, and the Middle East, and for seven years studied with Marina Mdivani, herself a student of Emil Gilels, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. At the age of five Jeremy won his first piano competition at the Kiwanis Music Festival in Halifax, and at eight won First Prize at the Armadillo National Piano Competition, awarding a performance with the Texas State Orchestra. Over the following ten years he placed first in eighteen competitions for solo piano, in three for piano ­duo, and in ten for solo cello at the Kiwanis Music Festival. He was the recipient of twelve scholarships and bursaries while studying at the Maritime Conservatory of Music from 1992 to 1998.

Jeremy is currently a Bay Area musician and piano instructor, and since 2015 has served as Co-President of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers San Francisco Chapter (CAPMT). He recently served as District Chair for the 2019 CAMPT Contemporary Music Competition. In 2016 Jeremy served as the interim piano instructor at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (SOTA), coaching the 14 advanced pianists enrolled there. He has since had multiple students graduate from their prestigious program.

Jeremy frequently travels to conferences around the country, actively pursuing continuing education in Music Pedagogy, Educational Psychology, and Neuroscience.