A versatile and charismatic performer, Jeremy Kleeman is a graduate of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, a Samling Artist and a Sambrook Scholar with Melba Opera Trust.

Recent performance highlights include creating the roles of Captain Gibb & Hugh Gibson in Cassomenos and Gething's Eva at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, singing Bass Soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater for both Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and making role debuts as Schaunard in La bohème for Opera Queensland and Abimèlech in Samson et Dalila for Melbourne Opera.

In 2024, he performed the title role in the world premiere of Jack Symonds’ Gilgamesh for Opera Australia and Sydney Chamber Opera. Australian Book Review wrote, “Kleeman as Gilgamesh dominates the opera, creating a powerful, multi-dimensional character. He possesses a beautifully smooth baritone voice, rich in colour, wide in range, with an expressive and limpid vocal line.”

Jeremy has created several other roles; Toby Raven in George Palmer’s Cloudstreet, Reverend Stratton and Mr. Jeffris in Elliot Gyger’s Oscar and Lucinda, Albert the Pudding in Calvin Bowman’s The Magic Pudding, Husband in Hing-yan Chan’s Double Happiness, and Magus in baroque pastiche Voyage to the Moon for which he was nominated for both Helpmann and Green Room Awards.

Widely acclaimed for his interpretation of the title role in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Jeremy has performed the role in every major Australian city in productions with Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia and West Australian Opera. Other operatic roles of note include Guglielmo in Così fan tutte for Opera Queensland; Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia for Sydney Chamber Opera and later, Dark MoFo Festival; and Walter Furst in Guillaume Tell for Victorian Opera.

Music theatre and operetta roles include Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore and Sergeant of Police in Pirates of Penzance for State Opera of South Australia; and for Victorian Opera, Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods, Jonas Fogg in Sweeney Todd and Horn Player in Sunday in the Park with George.

Jeremy is also well known for his work on the concert platform. He has sung Messiah with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic; Bach's St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion for Canberra International Music Festival, Melbourne Bach Choir, Newcastle University Choir and Christ Church South Yarra; and Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus.

Jeremy has also appeared with Victorian Opera, Musica Viva, Pinchgut Opera and the Queensland and Canberra Symphony Orchestras.

In Europe, Jeremy performed as a soloist in Elgar’s Apostles with the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, featured with the London Handel Players at the Tilford Bach Festival, appeared in recital at the Northern Lights Festival in Norway, and sang Traveller in the Moscow premiere of Britten’s Curlew River.

Jeremy is a Green Room Award winner, winner of the Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award and Australian International Opera Award.