Jeffery Wilson

Name:	Jeffery Wilson
Location:	Boreham Village United Kingdom CM3
Contact:	01245 468564 Send Jeffery Wilson a message

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Jeffery has a national and growing international reputation as a composer, performer and educator, equally at home in classical, contemporary and jazz music. He studied composition at the Royal College of Music with John Lambert and Herbert Howells and later with Aladar Majorossy, Gordon Jacob and in Paris with Olivier Messiaen.
An apprenticeship in music for dance and the theatre resulted in 34 dance scores to date and for the stage an Opera, a few musicals and some incidental music. To date he has about 200 works in the repertoire with over a third of them published. He has been composer in residence in many 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 for many years until his recent death, Henk Alkema. Jeffery has for 26 years performed with the contemporary quartet 'Saxology' and more recently with his own band ‘The Reduced History of Jazz’ although he continues to perform with numerous jazz and new music ensembles.

Jeffery was a visiting lecturer in composition, saxophone and improvisation at the Utrecht Conservatorium from 1986 until 2002 and was for a number of years a supervisor on the music faculty at Cambridge University teaching history, analysis and jazz, he maintains a relationship with the University as an examiner and for special projects. He recently ended a 22 year teaching relationship with the Colchester Institute to make more time for creative work. He currently divides his teaching commitments between Junior Guildhall where he is coordinator and professor of composition and the Royal Military School of Music where he is Professor of Saxophone. Jeffery sustains a thriving private teaching practice numbering among his students some prominent professionals and University and Conservatoire students.
Adjudication has taken him all over Europe and much of the world and he is much in demand in this area of music making. Serving as principal examiner (Jazz) for eleven years at the Guildhall Examination service and a role as senior examiner and Saxophone and Jazz adviser for Trinity College London completes the picture here.

Recent and current composing projects include a Clarinet Concerto for HM Band The Welsh Guards, an electro acoustic piece 'Journeying' for Victoria Soames Samek, a new Trumpet and piano piece called ‘The Boy King’ for Paul Archibald, a new choral work for the Waltham Singers called 'Songs of Home', educational material for A&C Black and Trinity College and a large double wind orchestra piece for the Bloomsbury Music Group and Junior Guildhall Wind Orchestra called ‘Postcards’.
This year also sees the revival of a number of his works –‘Young Person’s Guide to the Jazz Orchestra’, the opera ‘The Way to Glory’ and ‘Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra’.
Jeffery won the Recital Music Prize 2010 in both categories for his two songs ‘Music to Hear’ and ‘Peace’.
Jeffery values the support of his publishers - Camden Music, Brasswind Publications, Saxtet, Reedimensions, Spartan Press, Queens Temple, Recital Music and Trinity College London.

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Orchestral Playing, Session Work, Solo Performance, Rock / Pop, Contemporary Music, Jazz, Improvisation