Singer · Songwriter · Composer · Lyricist · Storyteller
I tell stories through music. Seven albums, a 27-song musical film, and a working life mostly spent alone at a piano in an attic in Beacon, NY — until a community of beautiful, brilliant artists shows up and brings the words and music to life.
About
Berklee. Twenty-seven years in Brooklyn. Now an attic in Beacon, NY, with a record collection and a deadline.
"I write theater not because of my great love for all things musical theater. I write because I have a great love for telling stories through music. That's it."
Seven albums under my name — Blue Skies and All, Drift, 37 Notebooks, Iron & Coal, Brooklyn to Beacon, the soundtrack to my film The Father Who Stayed, and 2026's Shades of Grey. A handful of musicals (Spun, Greta, Calling All Kates). A Billboard Top 25 song someone else recorded (thanks, Frankie). And a 27-song feature film I wrote and directed about a father grieving his daughter, which has now picked up seven festival awards.
I was born to an Auschwitz survivor, divorced at 30 with a small daughter, and made Iron & Coal in Vienna — a record about all of that, premiered at the Strathmore in 2018 with 230 people on stage. Drift was about Tuesdays and Thursdays, the days the custody schedule gave me. Brooklyn to Beacon is the album where I figured out I was okay. I'm still kind of surprised by that arc.
I'm not a reel or a saint. I'm just an artist trying to paint. I write late at night, mostly alone, mostly at the piano in the attic where the records are — and then I drag friends in to make the songs sound like they belong to more than one person.
Wife Sarah-Jane. Three kids — Gus, Frances, and my oldest from a first marriage. Dog named Lily Bunny. Co-founder of the Beacon Bonfire Music & Art Festival.
Book Jeremy
Tell me what you're imagining and I'll come back with what's actually possible. Every room is different.
In your living room
Seventy-five minutes at your piano (or mine — I'll bring one). Songs, the stories behind them, and the people you've been meaning to introduce to each other. The kind of night that ends with everyone still in the kitchen at eleven.
For students who write things
Songwriting workshops, masterclasses, assembly performances. The craft of building a song from one image, taught by someone who's been chasing it for thirty-something years and still gets a thrill when a verse turns. K through conservatory.
House Concerts
An evening for the people you've been meaning to get in the same room.
Tell me about your roomThere’s a kind of evening I’ve gotten a little addicted to. You invite the friends you’ve been meaning to introduce to each other. People bring something to share. We sit close — closer than any club lets you sit. I play for about seventy-five minutes. We talk in between songs. Some of them are decades old; some I wrote last Tuesday at the piano in the attic. And then we don’t stop talking till someone’s car shows up.
If you've hosted me before and would let me quote you, write me.
Education
I love teaching. I love it for the same reason I love writing — somebody, somewhere, is trying to say the thing they've never quite been able to say, and they're looking around for the tools. These are three of the shapes that's taken in classrooms over the years. They can be reshaped.
Middle school – college
Two hours on building a song from a single image. We start with something specific — a photograph, a memory, the thing your grandmother always said — and we end with the bones of a lyric and a real sense of revision as the actual craft. I’ve been writing songs for thirty-something years and I’m still revising.
K – 12
Forty-five minutes of songs and the stories that became them, written for a whole school in a room. Music about family, the towns the boom forgot, and the long road from an idea to a finished thing — pitched at whoever in the room writes things in their notebook.
Conservatory & advanced
Two hours with six to ten singers and writers, working on their songs the way they actually need to be worked on. Phrasing, lyric clarity, the through-line of a setlist — the questions you can’t quite get to in a private lesson. Observers welcome.
What's happening
Shows, releases, films, and the occasional letter from the studio.
June 20, 2026
My 27-song feature film, written and directed, about a father grieving his daughter. Seven festival awards in. Out wide.
Watch →June 1, 2026
An evening of songs with Karina Gallagher, Brook Wood, and friends. Use code SCHONEFELD5 for $5 off.
Tickets →May 30, 2026
The new record. Written, mostly, in the year I helped close out my parents' house in St. Louis after fifty-four years.
Listen →May 8, 2026
A new evening of story-and-song from Jeremy and friends, in Beacon, NY.
Learn more →Watch
Sessions, performances, and stories from across the catalog — on the 88 Stories YouTube channel.
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Music
The full catalog lives on the platforms where you already listen. For everything 88 Stories — the label, releases, films, and live — visit 88stories-llc.com.
Connect
Occasional notes — new music, shows in your area, the films and books and projects underway. No noise.
For booking inquiries — house concerts, school visits, performances — write to hello@88stories-llc.com.