[1] He was professor of violin and viola at the Royal Academy of Music in London and taught the violist Watson Forbes.
[4] Whilst at the Royal Academy of Music, Jeremy twice won the Charles Rube Prize for ensemble playing.
[5][6] Jeremy played in Thomas Beecham's Symphony Orchestra in 1910 when Richard Strauss's new operas Elektra and Salome, received their first performances in Britain.
[4] Jeremy was a good friend of Sir Edward Elgar[4] and gave the first public performances of Elgar's String Quartet and Piano Quintet at the Wigmore Hall on 20 May 1919, with Albert Sammons and W. H. Reed (violins), Felix Salmond (cello) and William Murdoch (piano).
[22] In 1929 he performed Ralph Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi at the Geneva Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
The other movements are dedicated to Arthur Beckwith and Cedric Sharpe, all members of the Philharmonic String Quartet who played alongside Goossens when he was the second violinist.