Jeremy Parel
Composer, Performer, Educator
Born in 1994,
Jeremy was raised in the D.C. suburbs. His former teachers include Molly Stier (piano), Jonathan Snowden and Karen Johnson (flute) and Jonathan Newman, Ruby Fulton, David T. Little and Charles Stier (composition). He participated in the CIM Young Composer's Program Summers of 2010 and 2011, the Oberlin Composition Workshop Summer of 2011, the RWO Chamber Music Workshop Summer of 2014 and the Charlotte New Music Festival and Dance Co-Lab the Summer of 2015. He has had music performed and read by the Great Noise Ensemble, Newspeak, Shenandoah Chorus, eighth blackbird, the Isaura String Quartet, THE Ensemble, CalArts Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and the Aperture Duo. In 2015, Jeremy was awarded the William Averitt Prize for Excellence in Composition.
In 2018, Jeremy completed his masters degree in composition at California Institute of the Arts studying with Michael Jon Fink and Anne LeBaron. He has participated in masterclasses with David Lang, David Smooke and Jennifer Higdon. He has had lessons with Michael Bratt, Ted Hearne, Marc Mellits and Lawrence Dillon.
Jeremy currently lives in the greater Los Angeles area and works as an educator, performer and composer. As an educator, Jeremy teaches piano, flute, composition, songwriting, music theory and history. As a performer Jeremy currently plays flute and assorted objects in the group This Machine.