# Raymond Jeremy

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{{Short description|British violist (1890–1969)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
|birth_name = William Raymond Thomas Jeremy 
|birth_date = {{birth date|1890|11|22|df=y}}
|birth_place = [Laugharne](/source/Laugharne), Carmarthenshire, Wales
|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
|genre = Classical
|instrument = Viola
|occupation = Musician, professor
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1969|3|12|1890|11|22}}
|death_place = [Aberystwyth](/source/Aberystwyth), Cardiganshire, Wales
}}

'''Raymond Jeremy''', FRAM, (1890-1969) was a British violist, known for his quartet playing, particularly the first performances of [Edward Elgar](/source/Edward_Elgar)'s [String Quartet](/source/String_Quartet_(Elgar)) and [Piano Quintet](/source/Piano_Quintet_(Elgar)).<ref>{{cite news |title=An Elgar Triumph – First performance of new Quartet and Quintet |work=Daily News (London) |date=22 May 1919}}</ref> He was professor of violin and viola at the [Royal Academy of Music](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Music) in London and taught the violist [Watson Forbes](/source/Watson_Forbes).

==Biography==
Raymond Jeremy was born in Laugharne, Wales in 1890. His early instruction on the violin was in Wales with Oliver Williams.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=C. |first1=J. |title=Reviewed Work: The Williams Brothers by Anne Macnaghten |journal=Music & Letters |date=October 1963 |volume=44 |issue=4 |page=400}}</ref> After three years of study with Williams, Jeremy was awarded the [Ada Lewis](/source/Ada_Lewis-Hill) scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Academy Letter, Scholarships and Prize Competitions: Ada Lewis Scholarships - William Raymond Jeremy (Violin) |journal=R. A. M. Club Magazine |date=October 1905 |volume=16}}</ref> where his violin professor was [Hans Wessely](/source/Hans_Wessely). During his final year at the academy, he met [Lionel Tertis](/source/Lionel_Tertis) and turned to the viola.<ref name=White1997>{{cite book |last1=White |first1=John |title=An Anthology of British Viola Players |date=1997 |publisher=Comus Edition |location=Colne, Lancashire |isbn=095310690X |page=143}}</ref> Whilst at the Royal Academy of Music, Jeremy twice won the Charles Rube Prize for ensemble playing.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Academy Letter |journal=R. A. M. Club Magazine |date=Nov 1909 |volume=28 |page=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Musical Association |journal=The Musical Times |date=July 1, 1907 |volume=48 |issue=773 |page=472}}</ref>

Jeremy played in [Thomas Beecham](/source/Thomas_Beecham)'s Symphony Orchestra in 1910 when [Richard Strauss](/source/Richard_Strauss)'s new operas ''[Elektra](/source/Elektra_(opera))'' and ''[Salome](/source/Salome_(opera))'', received their first performances in Britain. He also played in Sir [Henry Wood](/source/Henry_Wood)'s Queen's Hall Orchestra.<ref name=White1997/>

Jeremy played with numerous ensembles over his playing career including the [Kutcher String Quartet](/source/Kutcher_String_Quartet),<ref>{{cite news |title=Kutcher String Quartet's Concert |work=Dundee Evening Telegraph |date=23 January 1937}}</ref> the International Quartet,<ref name=Cobbett1963>{{cite book |last1=Cobbett |first1=Walter Willson |title=Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music |date=1963 |publisher=OUP |location=London}}</ref> the Allied Quartet,<ref name=White1997/> the [Philharmonic Quartet](/source/Philharmonic_Quartet), the London Piano Quartet,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Chamber Music |journal=Radio Times |date=2 September 1927 |issue=205 |page=387}}</ref> the [Virtuoso Quartet](/source/Virtuoso_Quartet),<ref>{{cite journal |title=Annual Report for 1931 |journal=R. A. M. Club Magazine |date=March 1932 |volume=92 |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Musical Treat at Forfar |work=Dundee Courier |date=28 October 1926}}</ref> the Meredyll Quartet,<ref name=Cobbett1963/> the Harp Ensemble,<ref name=Cobbett1963/> the Spencer Dyke Quartet,<ref>{{cite news |title=BBC Programmes |work=Londonderry Sentinel |date=1 June 1935}}</ref> the British String Quartet,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Back Matter |journal=The Musical Times |date=January 1, 1915 |volume=56 |issue=863 |page=52}}</ref> the Sybil Eaton Quartet,<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio Programmes |work=Leicester Evening Mail |date=6 March 1931}}</ref> and the Henkel Piano Quartet.<ref>{{cite news |title=English Quartet for Spain |work=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=29 January 1915}}</ref><ref name=Cobbett1963/> He also accompanied other String Quartets such as the [London String Quartet](/source/London_String_Quartet) and the [Stratton Quartet](/source/Stratton_Quartet).<ref>{{cite news |title=Stratton String Quartet |work=Sunday Post |date=14 April 1935}}</ref>

With the Philharmonic quartet, Jeremy played in the premieres of two works by [Arnold Bax](/source/Arnold_Bax), the ''In Memoriam'' sextet (1917) and the G major quartet (1918).<ref name=White1997/>
During the first world war, Jeremy recalls playing quartets with cellist Arthur Williams (brother of Jeremy's first teacher), [Jelly d'Aranyi](/source/Jelly_d'Aranyi) and [Adila Fachiri](/source/Adila_Fachiri), and stated that he learned the most about musical performance by playing string quartets with this ensemble. It was his connection with the d'Aranyi sisters which gave him a way in to the high-society world of music.<ref name=White1997/>
  
Jeremy was a good friend of Sir Edward Elgar<ref name=White1997/> and gave the first public performances of Elgar's String Quartet and Piano Quintet at the Wigmore Hall on 20 May 1919, with [Albert Sammons](/source/Albert_Sammons) and [W. H. Reed](/source/William_Henry_Reed) (violins), [Felix Salmond](/source/Felix_Salmond) (cello) and [William Murdoch](/source/William_Murdoch_(pianist)) (piano).<ref>{{cite news |last1=K. |first1=A. |title=AN ELGAR TRIUMPH. First Performance of New Quartet and Quintet |work=Daily News (London) |date=22 May 1919}}</ref> He also performed at [Lady Elgar](/source/Alice_Elgar)'s funeral in April 1920, playing the ''Andante Piacevole'' from Elgar's string quartet.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Late Lady Elgar |journal=The Musical Times |date=May 1, 1920 |volume=61 |issue=927 |page=331}}</ref> In that year Jeremy also played at the first private performance of [Arthur Bliss](/source/Arthur_Bliss)'s ''Conversations''.

In December 1924 he performed at the Wigmore Hall in London with the celebrated Russian harpist [Maria Korchinska](/source/Maria_Korchinska) in a performance of Debussy's Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp.<ref>{{cite journal |title=London Concerts |journal=The Musical Times |date=January 1, 1925 |volume=66 |issue=983 |page=64}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Wigmore Hall |work=Westminster Gazette |date=29 November 1924}}</ref> In 1927 Jeremy gave the premiere of Bax's Phantasy Sonata, with Korchinska, the work's dedicatee. Jeremy continued to play with Korchinska in recitals around Great Britain throughout the 1930s.<ref>{{cite news |last1=W.R. |first1=A. |title=Bournemouth Musical Society |work=Bournemouth Graphic |date=20 April 1935}}</ref> Jeremy also performed with the Welsh harpist [Gwendolen Mason](/source/Gwendolen_Mason).<ref>{{cite journal |title=A recital |journal=Radio Times |date=15 August 1937 |issue=724 |page=22}}</ref>

In 1929 he performed [Ralph Vaughan Williams](/source/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams)'s ''[Flos Campi](/source/Flos_Campi)'' at the Geneva Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music.<ref name=Obit1969>{{cite journal |title=Obituary |journal=The Musical Times |date=May 1969 |volume=110 |issue=1515 |page=524}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Evans |first1=Edwin |title=Geneva Festival |journal=The Musical Times |date=May 1, 1929 |volume=70 |issue=1035 |pages=432–440 |doi=10.2307/915256 |jstor=915256 }}</ref>

He made numerous recordings with a variety of ensembles including a recording in 1930 for the [National Gramophonic Society](/source/National_Gramophonic_Society) of [Paul Juon](/source/Paul_Juon)'s Chamber Symphony Op. 27.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Gramophone Notes |journal=The Musical Times |date=June 1, 1930 |volume=71 |issue=1048 |page=524}}</ref>

Jeremy taught in the 1920s at the [Editha Knocker](/source/Editha_Knocker) School of Violin Playing<ref>{{cite journal |title=Editha Knocker School of Violin Playing |journal=The Musical Times |date=November 1, 1927 |volume=68 |issue=1017 |page=991}}</ref> and was, throughout the 1930s, a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and an examiner for their Licentiate examinations.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Front Matter |journal=The Musical Times |date=March 1933 |volume=74 |issue=1081 |page=196}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Front Matter |journal=The Musical Times |date=June 1937 |volume=78 |issue=1132 |page=483}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Mr Raymond Jeremy, FRAM |work=Western Mail |date=15 September 1943}}</ref> He received the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM) in 1935.<ref>RAM Honours Database, RAM Library Archive</ref>

During the second world war, Jeremy performed in a number of concerts for the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), the precursor to the Arts Council.<ref>{{cite news |title=CEMA Grand Concert |work=Rhos Herald |date=18 September 1943}}</ref>

In his later years, he was professor of Violin and Viola at Aberystwyth College from where he retired in 1958.<ref name=Obit1969/>

The conductor and composer [Eugene Goossens](/source/Eugene_Aynsley_Goossens) dedicated the second movement of his String Quartet (Op.14) to Jeremy. The other movements are dedicated to [Arthur Beckwith](/source/Arthur_Beckwith_(violinist)) and [Cedric Sharpe](/source/Cedric_Sharpe), all members of the Philharmonic String Quartet who played alongside Goossens when he was the second violinist.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Evans |first1=Edwin |title=Modern British Composers. IV. Eugène Goossens (Continued) |journal=The Musical Times |date=July 1, 1919 |volume=60 |issue=917 |page=331}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Chamber Music |journal=Radio Times |date=9 Sep 1927 |volume=206 |page=418}}</ref>

Jeremy married Märta Vivika Norstrom in 1926 (she died in 1947) and they had one daughter, Nancy.<ref>Sweden, Indexed Marriage Records, 1860-1943</ref>

Raymond Jeremy died in Aberystwyth in 1969, aged 78.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Obituary - Raymond Jeremy |journal=The Musical Times |date=May 1969 |volume=110 |issue=1515 |page=524}}</ref>

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