Jeremy Monteiro is regarded as one of the foremost jazz pianists in Asia and has been referred to as Singapore’s King of Swing by the Asian press. He has more than 25 jazz albums as leader & has played on numerous other jazz albums including one by Grammy Award winning saxophonist Ernie Watts. He launched his international career playing at the Montreux Jazz in 1988 with his group “Monteiro, Young & Holt”. Swing Magazine of Switzerland called him “one of the best exponents of Jazz Piano” & Montreux Festival Director Claude Nobs called the concert “an unforgettable concert of the first 22 years of Montreux.”Jeremy has been featured on legendary pianist Marian McPartland’s NPR radio program Piano Jazz, which previously featured guests such as Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson.allaboutjazz.com said, “Jeremy...firstly...he writes sensitive, well-crafted tunes, and secondly, as a pianist he is at the top of the tree. Among others Jeremy has performed with are James Moody, Jimmy Cobb, Toots Thielemans, Bobby McFerrin, Michael Brecker, Ernie Watts, Matt Monro, Cassandra Wilson and Simon & Garfunkel.Jeremy is Professor at LASALLE College of the Arts & a Fellow of the London College of Music, University of West London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in the UK (the RSA). Past Fellows of the RSA have included Benjamin Franklin, Charles Dickens & Yehudi Menuhin and current Fellows include Nelson Mandela & Stephen Hawking.He has received the pinnacle award in Arts Achievement in Singapore, the Cultural Medallion in 2002. He also received the Singapore Tatler Leadership Award (Culture) in 2012.Besides running his companies, Showtime Productions Pte. Ltd. and Jazznote Records, he served two terms as a Board Member of the National Arts Council (2006-2010) & as a Director of the Composers & Authors Society of Singapore which he helped to co-found in 1988.