JEREMY WARD VIOLIN

Jeremy Ward is a full-time music educator and professional violinist based in Irvine, California.

He has previously worked as an elementary music teacher in Riverside Unified School District and served as Adjunct Professor at California Baptist University, where he directed Collegium Musicum, the university’s early music ensemble.

Jeremy is an active orchestral musician throughout Southern California, frequently collaborating with ensembles like The Redlands Bowl Orchestra, Riverside Lyric Opera, Temecula Valley Symphony, Sea Coast Symphony, Corona Symphony, The Four Seasons Orchestra, Performance Riverside, Inland Master Chorale, and Riverside City College. He has recently performed alongside some of the nation’s top musicians like Tom Hooten (Principal Trumpet of LA Phil), Anthony Leon, Irina Tseitlin, Ruslan Buryikov, Sandi Patti, Veritas, The Gaither Vocal Band, and Louis Lohraseb, to name a few.

In an effort to create meaningful performance and outreach opportunities, Jeremy founded The Backyard Series in 2024. This event series brought together local professional musicians in stunning residential settings to present chamber and orchestral POPS concerts for local communities. Jeremy serves as the curator, contractor, and arranger of these events. Learn more here.

Jeremy is an avid musical pit instrumentalist and theater-enthusiast. Recently, he served as Music Director for the 10th Annual Courtyard Shakespeare Festival, where he led the musical underscoring of the iconic play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has played in the musical pits of shows like Little Women, Into the Woods, Shrek, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Songs for a New World, and Bright Star. Over the course of 2 years, he helped premiere a brand new musical written by Dr. Glenn Pickett and David Goodman titled Dietrich and Maria, serving as concertmaster for the first fully staged production and recording CM solos on the original production recording.

Before his studies at CBU, he was a founding member of The Contiguo Quartet, with which he won the 2020 Buttram Competition. He also served as a principal in the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra and won the 2018 Next Generation Performing Arts Concerto Competition. In 2023, he spent his summer as a young artist at The Trentino Music Festival in Italy under Maestro J. David Jackson from the Metropolitan Opera.

Jeremy received his B.M. in Music Education from California Baptist University where he was named a Presser Scholar in recognition of his outstanding work as an undergraduate student. He is currently pursuing his M.M. in Violin Performance at The Bob Cole Conservatory.

Beyond his professional activities, Jeremy actively contributes to his church, Antioch.