Jeremy Turner (composer)

Jeremy Turner began playing the piano and the cello as a young child. After his family moved to Michigan where his father was Director of Admissions at Michigan State University, Turner attended East Lansing High School.^[1] He then furthered his musical studies at The Juilliard School as a pupil of Harvey Shapiro. In 1997, before graduating Juilliard, Turner joined The Metropolitan Opera^[2] Orchestra at just 21 years old, becoming one of the youngest members ever to join^[3] the ensemble. At the end of his first season Turner was invited to join the Met Chamber Ensemble^[4] in its inaugural year. In 2005 he took a leave of absence from the Met to be the interim Principal Cellist of The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra^[5][6][7] in New Zealand. After returning to the Met in 2006, Turner played his final season in 2011 before leaving the orchestra to pursue composition.^[8]

Turner has recorded with musicians such as Paul McCartney, David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, and The National,^[9] has performed with various artists that include Renee Fleming, Joshua Bell,^[10] and Arcade Fire^[11] and as a conductor has appeared twice at the LACMA Art + Film Gala.^[12] In 2013, he collaborated on original music with James Murphy for the Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal,^[13][14] directed by Mike Nichols. As a composer, Turner has been nominated for two Emmy Awards, won the Music & Sound Award (UK), won the International Documentary Association award^[15][16] for best music, was a 2015 Sundance^[17] fellow, and was named in NPR Music's Favorite Songs of 2014.^[18][19] He received the AICP Award^[20] for best original music for his score to Google's first ever television commercial,^[21] "Parisian Love", which debuted during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV .^[22][23] He has performed on Saturday Night Live with My Morning Jacket,^[24] the Late Show With David Letterman with Dirty Projectors,^[25] and performed with Renee Fleming at the opening of Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. In 2015 he composed music for Chris Doyle's exhibition "Night Lights at Wave Hill",^[26] featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Turner was a member of Low City,^{[27][28][29][30][31]} a musical duo based in Brooklyn. In 2014 he appeared with Simon Spurr in the September issue of Vanity Fair^[32]

• Independent Lens (2014–)^[33]
• A Year in Space (2015)^[34]
• Strokes of Genius (2018)
• Immigration Nation (2020)
• Marvel's 616 (2020)

• The Bear and the Squirrel (2014) written for yMusic
• The Fluid (2014) written for woodwind ensemble, cello, and piano
• The Lightening (2015) written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
• The Inland Seas (2016) written for James Ehnes and Chris Thile
• Swell (2017) written for The Flux Quartet
• Suite of Unreason (2017) written for clarinet, cello, piano and percussion
• Six Mile House (2021) written for piano, clarinet, violin, and cello
• Shorebirds (2022) written for solo violin