Jeremy Mastrangelo

Jeremy Mastrangelo has performed regularly with the National Arts Centre Orchestra since the end of 2011 and was appointed a full-time member in 2014. 

Previously, Jeremy was the associate concertmaster of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra from 2001 until 2011 and was designated the orchestra’s next concertmaster in 2010. During his tenure with the SSO, he was a featured soloist on multiple occasions, including for performances of Bach’s Concerto for two violins with Jaime Laredo, Brahms’s “Double Concerto,” the Sibelius violin concerto, and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. He has been a guest concertmaster with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and the National Ballet of Canada. Before his work in Syracuse, Jeremy was co-concertmaster of the New World Symphony in Miami. Jeremy has been a finalist in the Stulberg International String Competition and was the top prize winner in the National Federation of Music Clubs student auditions. In addition to his orchestral career, Jeremy performs frequently in solo recitals and chamber music concerts and has been featured in the Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music series on several occasions. He has also performed with the Chamber Players of Canada and Kathleen Battle and in the NAC Orchestra’s Music for a Sunday Afternoon series. From 2004 to 2009, he was an Affiliate Artist faculty member at Syracuse University.

Jeremy spent seven summers performing at festivals in Colorado with his wife Sara, who is also a violinist. First, as a quartet musician at the Steamboat Springs’ Strings Music Festival, and for the next six years, he performed with the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra under conductor Gerhardt Zimmerman. For his final two summers, he served as concertmaster for the BMF, and in that capacity, he soloed with the orchestra and was featured on a recording of Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Jeremy holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of Michigan, where he studied with William Preucil and Paul Kantor. Jeremy resides in Ottawa with his wife and two children, both of whom play piano and violin, in addition to their interests in baseball, basketball, dance, art, and most anything Star Wars–related.