Jeremy was born in Upstate NY, the son of a Presbyterian minister and a nurse, the middle child of five. He began playing piano at an early age. When he was 10, his family relocated to the Pittsburgh area, and he started to take his piano studies more seriously and also wrote his first compositions. In high school, he became interested in musical theatre, taking classes in voice, acting, and dancing at Pittsburgh's CLO Academy.

During his Junior year of high school, he spent a semester overseas in Marseille, France, a trip that changed the trajectory of his life for the following twenty years. After graduation, and having put his music studies aside, he attended Purchase College, SUNY and pursued a French major with a focus on translation. He became the literature editor and then the editor in chief of the school's arts magazine. This led to another semester overseas, this time studying at La Sorbonne in Paris. After his return, and frustrated with his college life, he finished his senior year without graduating, and returned to Pittsburgh.

Now 23, he got his first job as a busser at a small French restaurant, Le Pommier. Within two years he was manager. A year later, he and two coworkers became co-owners of the restaurant, which continued to receive rave reviews under their ownership. All the while, he remained part of the local arts and music community, playing piano or singing at local venues, and hosting small events for artists, musicians, and actors at the restaurant or his home.

In 2010, he met his now-husband Miro, and they relocated to Brooklyn, NY. Jeremy took this opportunity to return to Purchase College, where he completed his senior thesis, and graduated in 2011 with a double major of Literature and French Culture. At the same time, he began dabbling in music composition again. After the births of their two children in 2015 and 2017, and upon the suggestion of the composer Stefan Weisman, he auditioned and was accepted into the Juilliard Extension division. He's had the pleasure of working with composer/professors Daniel Felsenfeld, Ray Lustig, Dalit Warshaw, and Conrad Cummings. He's continuously inspired by their mentorship, which included three summer intensive workshops and seven semesters of composition classes.

Jeremy lives in Montclair, NJ with his husband, two daughters, and their miniature schnauzer Whitman.