JEREMY FOX

Grammy-nominated Dr. Jeremy Fox is Professor of Vocal Jazz at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California. There he directs vocal jazz ensembles, teaches jazz voice lessons, jazz piano accompanying pclasses, and audio classes. For 14 years, Dr. Fox taught full-time at the School for Music Vocations program, for many years conducting vocal and instrumental ensembles alongside renowned arranger Phil Mattson. He is excited to be crafting a new jazz certificate program at Mt. San Antonio College to go hand-in-hand with their phenomenal award-winning ensembles.  The jazz voice program is being designed to serve to empower musicians with skills not taught at most traditional collegiate programs.  He is in demand as a festival and conference clinician, and has served as guest conductor at more than fifteen All-State ensembles throughout the U.S. and Canada. His ensembles have been invited numerous times to national conferences such as the Jazz Education Network’s Annual Conference – and his ensemble was the only collegiate group to represent vocal jazz at the most recent American Choral Directors Association National Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Dr. Fox earned his Bachelors degree in Piano-Jazz Studies from Western Michigan University, and his Masters and Doctorate in Jazz Composition from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.  As a student, he was the recipient of 11 awards from Downbeat Magazine, including ones for: Jazz Song, Jazz Arrangement, Studio Engineering, and for the Vocal Jazz Group he conducted as an undergraduate student.  As an instructor, his ensembles have been recognized by Downbeat Magazine as “Best Community College Small Vocal Jazz Ensemble” 3 times, while earning Outstanding Performance 3 other occasions. For 20 years, Jeremy led the SMV Vocal Jazz Camps in the U.S. and Canada, and has led 15 annual Jazz Harmony Retreats – empowering educational workshop for choral educators who have simply may have never had the opportunity to learn the nuts and bolts of jazz arranging and accompanying.


Dr. Fox publishes his compositions through his own website, and is a member of ASCAP.  His arrangements are also published by Anchor Music Publications, UNC Jazz Press, iJazzMusic, Alfred Music, and Sheet Music Plus.  He has been commissioned by dozens of high schools and colleges to write pieces for their vocal jazz ensembles, concert/chamber choirs, big bands, and studio orchestras. His music has been written for or performed by: Take 6, The Real Group, New York Voices, m-pact, Cadence, Theo Bleckmann, Terence Blanchard, John Secada, and Metropolitan Opera singers Eric Owens and Denyce Graves. He is the Musical Director of Bossa Nova Sinfónico with a Brazilian quartet including singer Rose Max, and with this group has conducted the National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba, and twice conducted the Costa Rican National Orchestra.  Audio from the concert in Costa Rica earned a Latin Grammy Award, and videos have yielded over 15 millions views on YouTube.  He has also twice been invited to guest conduct the famed Henry Mancini Institute Jazz Orchestra in Miami, Florida.  His inaugural album was entitled “With Love” and features his big band and orchestral arrangements for a phenomenal line-up of singers, including Rose Max and Ramatis Moraes, Kate Reid, Kate McGarry, Lauren Kinhan and Peter Eldridge (from the New York Voices), Anders Edenroth (from The Real Group), Derek Fawcett, Wendy Pedersen, Sunny Wilkinson, and Kevin Mahogany. His arrangement of “All My Tomorrows” featuring Kate McGarry was nominated for “Best Arrangement – Instruments and Vocals” at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.