Jeremy McCoy is a Canadian-American double bassist known for his work as an orchestral musician, soloist, chamber musician, studio session player and teacher. He is assistant principal double bass with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City. McCoy was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1963 but was raised in Ottawa. His earliest musical training was from age 6, on piano and as a chorister. McCoy took an interest in double bass while at Greenbank Middle School and in 1977, he began to study the instrument with David Currie. He received additional instruction from Oscar Zimmerman, Winston Budrow and Thorvald Fredin. He received his Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Roger Scott. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)