Education:

B.M. Boston University, Composition and Flute
M.F.A. Brandeis University, Music
M.Mus. (with Distinction) Royal Academy of Music London, Composition
Diploma, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Ethnomusicology
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (ABD)
Composition, Theory, and Ethnomusicology

University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms Committee Scholarship recipient for research in Vienna, May - June 2011,

University of Pittsburgh Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2012-2013

Workshops, Seminars and Conferences:

Dartington Int’l Summer School, Advanced Composition with Judith Weir 1999
Dartington Int’l Summer School, Advanced Composition with Jo Kondo 2000
Cesky Krumlov Young Composer’s Meeting with Helmut Lachenmann 2001
25th International Composers Conference in Sophia, Buglaria, 2001
Cesky Krumlov Young Composer’s Meeting with Michael Finnissy 2002
Apeldoorn, Holland, 6th Young Composers Meeting with Louis Andriessen, 2002

Boston University Musicological Society, Annual Conference:
"Music and Violence," February 2012

American Folklore Society Meeting, New Orleans, October 2012

Short Biography:

Jeremy Woodruff, studied composition with Michael Finnissy from 1999 – 2001 and Ethnomusicology at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam 2002 - 2004, with field research in Chennai, Bangalore and Mysore, India. In 2004 he moved to Berlin where he has been a guest lecturer at the University of the Arts, UdK and Conservatory, HfM "Hanns Eisler." He is director and teaches composition, electronic music and ensembles at the Neue Musikschule Berlin. His writings have been published by Klangzeitort (Berlin) and by Verlag für Moderne Kunst (Nürnberg). In the U.S.A. Jeremy Woodruff's compostion teachers have included David Rakowski, Marty Boykan, Mathew Rosenblum and Eric Moe.

He has been co-editor and co-moderator of the monthly radio broadcast ‘Lautstrom’ sponsored by Haus der Kulturen der Welt with Anna Bromley on reboot.fm. 88.4, free cultural radio Berlin. His collaborative work with artists has recently been featured at the Künstlerhaus Bremen with Egill Sæbjörnsson, Kunst Hier und Jetzt in Wolfsburg, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Clocktower Gallery in New York and in the Venice Biennale 2011. 

Jeremy is an active performer of experimental/electronic music with traverso, shakuhachi, Arabic and Turkish ney, kaval, and North and South Indian flute. Several pieces have been commissioned and premiered by Percusemble Berlin, and by the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, among others.