Bio : Artists

Jeremy Preston : Violin I

Jeremy Preston has performed in Canada and Brazil as well as major concert halls in the United States. He has performed at major music festivals including Tanglewood, Blossom and Spoleto. Trained at New England Conservatory's Walnut Hill School, Rice University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, his distinguished teachers include Marylou Speaker Churchill, Lynn Chang, Kathleen Winkler, Sally Thomas, and William Preucil. His chamber music coaches include Norman Fisher, Pamela and Claude Frank, and members of the Cleveland and Juilliard quartets. Mr. Preston has performed with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Breckenridge Festival Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra, and Canton Symphony Orchestra, and he was a concertmaster of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra as well as the Shepherd School Orchestra at Rice University. Mr. Preston has recently joined the second violin section of the North Carolina Symphony, and he returns to EMF for his sixth season.