Jeremy Cavaterra was born in New York City in 1971. Interested in music from an early age, he began improvising and "composing" on the piano long before receiving any formal musical training. When he was ten years old his family moved to Los Angeles, where he took up piano lessons with Tania Agins. Agins gave him a firm traditional foundation and also encouraged his interest in composition, introducing him to Mark Carlson who guided his efforts and also provided him with theory lessons. Later he furthered his piano studies with Robert Turner before receiving a full scholarship to attend Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied composition with Giampaolo Bracali, as well as orchestration and conducting. He spent the next several years in Italy, composing and performing as pianist in and around Rome, and participating in festivals such as Musica Contemporanea Lazio and Musica sotto l'Orologio, in which works of his were premièred. Returning to Los Angeles, he worked briefly as composer and orchestrator for a number of films and television shows before deciding that his temperament and a distaste for electronics indisposed him to the commercial music business. More recently he has shifted his emphasis back to his musical roots, composing concert music for live players, the ambit in which he is happiest.
Recently, Cavaterra's piano suite Six Character Pieces received its Los Angeles and San Francisco premières by the brilliant Spanish virtuoso Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, with whom Cavaterra has enjoyed a long musical collaboration.
Cavaterra is also an author whose work has appeared in publications as diverse as music journals and science fiction magazines. At the moment he is busy with the completion of his first book, which he describes as "a picaresque novel set in a fictitious world".
Jeremy Cavaterra currently lives in the Oakland hills.
Jeremy Cavaterra was born in New York City in 1971. Interested in music from an early age, he began improvising and "composing" on the piano long before receiving any formal musical training. When he was ten years old his family moved to Los Angeles, where he took up piano lessons with Tania Agins. Agins gave him a firm traditional foundation and also encouraged his interest in composition, introducing him to Mark Carlson who guided his efforts and also provided him with theory lessons. Later he furthered his piano studies with Robert Turner before receiving a full scholarship to attend Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied composition with Giampaolo Bracali, as well as orchestration and conducting. He spent the next several years in Italy, composing and performing as pianist in and around Rome, and participating in festivals such as Musica Contemporanea Lazio and Musica sotto l'Orologio, in which works of his were premièred. Returning to Los Angeles, he worked briefly as composer and orchestrator for a number of films and television shows before deciding that his temperament and a distaste for electronics indisposed him to the commercial music business. More recently he has shifted his emphasis back to his musical roots, composing concert music for live players, the ambit in which he is happiest.