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Artist
Jeremy Monteiro
12+ albums
composerjazzpianistvocalistHammond
about
Jeremy Monteiro (born June 20, 1960, Singapore, is a Jazz Pianist, Singer, Composer and Music Educator. He has performed and won critical acclaim in many parts of the world, in addition to numerous occasions at home in Singapore, where he has been dubbed "Singapore's King Of Swing" by the local press. He became a Fellow of the London College of Music which is part of the Thames Valley University in the UK in early 2007. Jeremy Monteiro was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in the UK (the RSA) on 15 September 2006. Current Fellows of the RSA include Nelson Mandela and Stephen Hawking. Past Fellows of the RSA include Benjamin Franklin, Charles Dickens, Guglielmo Marconi and Yehudi Menuhin. He was appointed a Board Member of the National Arts Council of Singapore on 1 September 2006. The NAC is a Statutory Board of the Government of Singapore and comes under the auspices of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA). Jeremy Monteiro was appointed Professor & Visiting Chair of Jazz, School of Music, Faculty of Performing Arts & Integrated Studies, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts on 29 May 2006. He is the first Singaporean to be appointed Professor at the Institution since Brother Joseph McNally founded it in 1984. Also on 29 May 2006, Jeremy released his first album of all original compositions. The album, which is the latest in his discography of more than 20 albums, is entitled Homecoming,
