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Jeffrey Smith

Education:

• D.M.A. , Yale University, 1994
• M.A. , Yale University, 1988
• M.M. , Northwestern University, 1984
• B.M. , Northwestern University, 1983

Background:

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Also the interim organist and choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral, an Episcopal Church in Indianapolis, Jeffrey Smith was previously the canon director of music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. While at Grace Cathedral, Smith taught at the Cathedral School for Boys, coordinated and directed musical affairs for diocesan events, directed cathedral voluntary choirs, and planned and conducted all concerts, tours and recordings of the cathedral choirs.

He also has experience with choir tours, with a CD recording and choir tour in 2007 that included liturgical performances at Westminster Abbey, Chartres Cathedral, and Notre Dame de Paris.

Smith was the music director at Saint Paul's Parish, K Street, in Washington D.C. from 1992 to 2004. Before his time in Washington, D.C., he was the organist-choirmaster of Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Ky.

He is active as a choral conductor, workshop leader, teacher, recitalist, and in the work of the Royal School of Church Music and the Association of Anglican Musicians.

In addition to his degrees from Yale University and Northwestern University, Smith has an Associate Diploma from the Royal College of Music, London. He won highest honors in receiving the Fellowship of the American Guild of Organists. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal School of Church Music in a ceremony at York Minster in June 2004.

His teachers include Thomas Murray, Gerre Hancock, Wolfgang Rübsam, and David Willcocks. He studied improvisation with Philippe Lefebvre, organist of Notre Dame de Paris, and has undertaken an extensive tour of the German boy choir tradition.

As a commentator on church music, Smith has been heard on both NPR and BBC Radio. His choral and organ disks on the Pro Organo label have been critically praised.