Jeremy Klein is a multifaceted musician and violist performing in solo, chamber, orchestral, contemporary, period, and improvised settings, and is also passionate about teaching and community engagement. He joins the JCC Thurnauer School of Music in fall 2024, teaching chamber music and viola. Jeremy has attended music festivals including Aspen, Bad Leonfelden, Bowdoin, del Lago, Norfolk, Olympic, PMP, Rome, Sarasota, Toronto, Valley of the Moon, and Vivace, and has performed alongside musicians including Joshua Blue, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Lydia Brown, Melvin Chen, Jennifer Frautschi, Joshua Gindele, Frank Morelli, Tai Murray, Itzhak Perlman, Zvi Plesser, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Laurie Smukler, Tanya Tomkins, Rachell Ellen Wong, and Eric Zivian, among others. Jeremy has performed concertos by Bartók and Telemann with orchestras in Italy and Ukraine, and has collaborated with living composers on the premiers of many solo and chamber works, in addition to maintaining a serious interest in historical performance. He has performed and recorded in other genres as well, including Jewish music and film soundtracks. Jeremy has collaborated with Project Music Heals Us as a performer teaching artist in music composition and songwriting courses, in residence at detention facilities in California and New York. He has also participated in several other community engagement and education projects. Currently a CV Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School, Jeremy also completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Juilliard where his principal mentors have been Misha Amory, Heidi Castleman, Catherine Cho, and Molly Carr.