Jeffery is one of the country’s foremost composers and educators, equally at home in classical, contemporary and jazz music.

He studied composition at the Royal College of music with John Lambert and Herbert Howells, later with Aladar Majorossy, Gordon Jacob and Olivier Messiaen. He has about 150 works in the repertoire about a third of them published. He has been composer in residence in over a dozen European cities and with some notable orchestras including the London Festival
Orchestra, London Mozart Players and the Northern Sinfonia. Jeffery performs in recital with pianists Tim Watts and Henk Alkema, with the contemporary quartet ‘Saxology’ and with numerous jazz and new music ensembles.

Jeffery was a visiting lecturer in composition, saxophone and Improvisation at the Utrecht Conservatonum from 1986 until recently and now teaches single reeds at the Colchester Institute. He is also a professor and coordinator of composition at Junior Guildhall and on the panel of supervisors for the music faculty at Cambridge University. He enjoys his role as advisor for Trinity Guildhall Exams on matters jazz and saxophone.

Adjudication has taken him all over the UK and much of Europe and he is much in demand in this area of music making. It is as a teacher that Jeffery finds great fulfilment and numbers among his students some prominent professionals, composers and improvisers from Universities and Conservatoire in the UK.

Current composing projects include a Bass Clarinet Quintet for Victoria Soames Samek and the Coull Quartet and he has just completed a new Wind Quintet called ‘The Bird Fancyers Delight for the group Whirlwind. His 50th birthday last September is being marked by concerts at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and with commissions for a Wind Trio, Sax Quartet and Brass Band piece. Jeffery values the support of his publishers Camden Music, Brasswind, Saxtet and Reedimensions. 2007 also saw the revival of his Opera, The Way to Glory’ at Passiontide in Chelmsford Cathedral.

For more information about Jeffrey and up-to-date news of his performances visit:

www.jefferywilson.co.uk