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 Mr. McCoy is a faculty member in the College for the following department(s) and division(s):
| | | Jeremy McCoy is Assistant Principal double bass with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In addition to a demanding orchestral schedule, he maintains an active career as soloist, chamber musician, studio session player and teacher.
A native of Ottawa, Canada, Mr. McCoy was introduced to the double bass in middle school and studied privately with David Currie, former principal of the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Summers spent at Interlochen and with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada included study with Oscar Zimmerman, Winston Budrow and Torvald Fredin.
With the assistance of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and other arts organizations, Mr. McCoy continued his studies with Roger Scott at the Curtis Institute of Music, earning a Bachelor of Music degree. During his years at Curtis, he had the opportunity to work with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache and also served as principal of the Canadian Chamber Orchestra under Klaus Tennstedt. At age twenty, Mr. McCoy was appointed by Franco Mannino to a position with the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada and embarked upon his professional career. In 1985, at the end of his first season with the National Arts Centre, he won an appointment to the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine. He has also been a guest performer with the Chicago, San Francisco and Toronto Symphony Orchestras.
Mr. McCoy has appeared as recitalist at Lincoln Center and on CBC Radio and as a concerto soloist at the National Arts Centre, with the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and Musica Viva of New York. As a chamber musician Mr. McCoy has collaborated with many distinguished artists including members of the Arditti, Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard and Tokyo string quartets. He has performed at Bargemusic and at summer festivals including Marlboro, Banff, Affinis Festival (Japan), Kneisel Hall, Grand Tetons, Bowdoin, Lincoln Center Festival, Appalachian Summer Festival, Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Music Festival of the Hamptons and Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival.
As a performer of new music, Mr. McCoy is a founding member of Sequitur and has appeared regularly with Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Sospeso and the Columbia Sinfonietta. He has performed the American premieres of chamber works by Ades, Andriessen, Birtwhistle, Carter, Grisey, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Lindberg, Murail, Rihm and Salonen, to name a few.
Mr. McCoy has recorded orchestral works for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, London-Decca, Phillips, Erato and CBC Records and chamber works for Koch Classics, Albany, Naxos, CRI, Mode Records and Concord Jazz. He is frequently engaged for commercial session work in the film, recording and advertising industries - going solo for low budget “indies” or leading full symphonic sections for the soundtracks to major motion pictures. Mr. McCoy’s eclectic recording of duos, “Dialogues with Double Bass” (Bridge 9163) was released to widespread critical acclaim in 2005.
In addition to the Manhattan School of Music, Mr. McCoy teaches at Columbia University and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College (CUNY). He has presented master classes throughout the United States, in Canada and Japan and contributes pedagogical articles to Strings Magazine.
Mr. McCoy plays an exceptional instrument made in 1749 by the Venetian luthier Domenico Busan. He uses strings by Pirastro.
Manhattan School of Music College Faculty appointment begins fall of 2009. |
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