Introduced to the music scene from various jazz communities in Jakarta, Jémi now works on various styles of music. He has worked and performed with Barry Likumahuwa, Marion Jola, Yuni Shara, Citra Scholastika, and Paramitha Rusady among others. Besides session works, Jeremiah is currently working on his brass trio, Brass Kencur, which is preparing their first single.

 

At the age of 8, his mother encouraged him to learn classical piano, following his older sister. Picked up alto saxophone on age 14, his first teacher was his uncle, Toni Sitompul. Since then he was trained at church and joined music ministry at church, under the supervision and mentoring of Todung Siagian. He also took several lessons with FA Talafaral (USA), Dony Koeswinarno (Indonesia), and attended LPM Farabi under the instruction of Mr. Januar.

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While he has played saxophone during his teenage years, it was not until  the freshman year in business school where he started to put focus and effort in music. He started out in the jazz communities, winning 2nd place on the 36th Jazz Goes to Campus 2013 and playing the fest that year and the year after. Jeremiah's tasted his very first Java Jazz stage in 2014.

 

Today, Jémi plays sessions for pop artists and is a highly demanded freelance saxophone player in Indonesia's music scene. In between performing gigs, he also spend some time in studio, working on recording sessions, and also teach saxophone lessons.