Jeremy Darrow
Jeremy Darrow is an award-winning pianist and composer of classical and jazz music. With over eleven years of piano study, he has performed as a solo classical pianist and collaborated with numerous jazz ensembles and combos. In 2026, he recorded at the Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage for the Rise Film Scoring Orchestra. In 2024, he was a winner in the Original Composition Large Ensemble Category of the DownBeat Student Music Awards for his composition I’ll Take What I Can Get, which the Azusa Pacific University Jazz Ensemble premiered and recorded in 2024-2025. He also has received Outstanding Performance awards in both 2021 and 2022 for Large Jazz Ensemble and Small Jazz Combo.
As a composer, Darrow has written pieces for orchestra, jazz band, wind quintet and more. In 2025, he completed The Divine Suite, a cycle of three solo piano pieces reflecting on God’s beauty, the presence of sin in the world, and the gift of salvation. He also completed He Will Wipe Away Every Tear for cello and piano. In addition, Darrow has arranged music for film music concerts at the Haugh Performing Arts Center, which included arrangements of Tom and Jerry and The Adventures of Tintin for orchestra and jazz band.
As a pianist, Darrow has performed both in classical and jazz idioms, regularly performing with the Azusa Pacific University Jazz Ensemble and performing his own solo piano compositions. He also works as a collaborator, accompanying instrumentalists and vocalists. In April 2023, he performed Herbie Hancock's Dolphin Dance at the Evening of Note, which featured classical pianist Jon Nakamatsu as well as other pianists. In 2019, he performed with jazz drummer Peter Erskine at the San Jose Jazz Summer Camp.
Darrow’s favorite composers are Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen and Mahler to name a few. His favorite jazz artists include Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.
He has previously studied jazz piano under Arnie Co and Dahveed Behroozi and currently studies classical with Dr. Andrew Park. He studies music composition with Mark Gasbarro, who has worked as a pianist and orchestrator for movies like Up!, Spiderman: No Way Home and The Incredibles.
He is currently pursuing his B.M. in Composition at Azusa Pacific University. Darrow aspires to have a career as a freelance pianist and composer, with a focus on film scoring and concert music.
