Jeremiah Shaw
Adjunct Clinical Instructor of Music
Bio
Jeremiah Shaw, cellist, has performed throughout Asia, Europe, and the U.S. with various symphonies, chamber orchestras, and ensembles. In 2013 he founded the acclaimed Telegraph Quartet in San Francisco which won the Grand Prize and Gold Medal at the 2014 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the 2016 Naumburg Foundation Chamber Music Competition.
As an avid chamber musician, Jeremiah spent multiple summers at Kneisel Hall in Maine, having the privilege of working with members of the most prestigious and influential string quartets of America such as the Audubon, Cleveland, Concord, and Juilliard String Quartets. Past festival performances include, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in MI, Kneisel Hall in ME, Mainly Mozart Music Festival and Music in the Vineyards in California, Chautauqua Music Festival in NY, Gretna Music Festival in PA, Music at the Gardner and LyricaFest in MA, Steans Institute at Ravinia Music Festival in IL, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, and was a member of the cello section of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho for over a decade.
Jeremiah is currently faculty at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and has held faculty positions at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Diego State University School of Music, Interlochen, the SoCal Chamber Music Workshops in California, Chamber Music Connection in OH, and at Sun Valley Summer Symphony Music Workshops in ID. During his fellowship at New World Symphony in Miami Beach Florida he performed the Shostakovich Cello Concerto no. 1 with conductor Alasdair Neale as winner of the concerto competition. Jeremiah holds performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, as well as a bachelor degree in Music Production and Recording Technology from Shenandoah University. He also had the unique opportunity of interning for the Grammy Award Winning classical music label Sono Luminus, while attaining his audio engineering degree. His principal cello teachers were Richard Aaron and Joel Krosnick, but his main inspiration to become a quartet cellist was from his father Clyde Shaw, cellist of the Audubon Quartet.
