ARTbar – Jeremey Poparad Trio

Jeremey Poparad is a guitarist, bassist, composer, and educator in the Northeast Ohio area. As a performer, Jeremey regularly appears with jazz and rock groups as well as classical ensembles and in musical theatre pit orchestras. He performs regularly as co-principal double bass for the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, musical theatre productions at the Cleveland Playhouse, Canton Players Guild, and Porthouse Theatres, with jazz big bands such as the Danjo Orchestra, and as a band leader with his own ensembles. He also frequently tours across the United States with the soul-funk group Bassel and the Supernaturals. Jeremey leads and composes music for the progressive rock band Axon-Neuron, the electronic-jazz group Volt Meter, the hybrid classical-jazz group Janus Ensemble, as well as a French-gypsy jazz group The Hot Club of Akron. As an educator, he teaches privately and as an adjunct professor at Kent State University, Ashland University, the University of Mount Union, and Lakeland Community College and has published transcriptions and lessons through Premier Guitar magazine and Mel Bay Publications ("Ben Monder Compositions, Volume 1"). Jeremey is currently pursuing a PhD in music theory and composition and has presented his doctoral research nationally and internationally, including at the 2023 International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) in Tokyo, Japan and the 2021 ICMPC virtual conference.