Jeremy hails from Pittsburgh, PA, where he received in B.A. in Music from the University of Pittsburgh (2006), with previous voice and opera studies at West Virginia University. His dissertation, advised by Professors Mitchell Morris and Susan McClary, explores the connection of élite educational and social experiences and the expression of masculinity to 17th-century French opera. He has written and presented on Mozart's Don Giovanni, voice and power the performances of Grace Slick and Stevie Nicks, and on intimacy and male bonding in Marc-Antoine Charpentier's David et Jonathas. He has presented these topics at AMS Pacific-Southwest Chapter Meetings, Cornell University, Stanford University, Yale University, the Society for 17th-century Music, Feminist Music and Theory 10, and the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent, Belgium. Jeremy is a recipient of 2006-2007 and 2010-2011 Dean's Fellowships from the Graduate Division of UCLA, two UCLA Summer Research Mentorships, and a UCLA International Institute Summer Language Study grant. He served as Pacific-Southwest Chapter Student Representative to the American Musicological Society's National Council from 2007-2009 and is an active member-at-large of the same society's LGBTQ Study Group.

In conjunction with his academic career, Jeremy is an emerging composer, arranger, and accompanist in the queer performance art scenes in Los Angeles and New York City, and has performed at Dixon Place (NYC), the Living Theater (NYC), The Cavern Club Theater/Telekenesis (LA), Trannyshack (LA), La Cita/Mustache Mondays (LA), and presented his first cabaret on queer spirituality and expression at Le Petit Versailles garden and performance space in New York City's Lower East Side. Jeremy is a Radical Faerie (http://www.radfae.org/).