Jeffrey Smith
Adjunct Professor of Music (Organ)
Contact Information:
JeffreyS
[at]
CCCIndy [dot] org
(JeffreyS@CCCIndy.org)
Sycamore Hall, SY237
Department
Education
- D.M.A., Yale University, 1994
- M.A., Yale University, 1988
- M.M., Northwestern University, 1984
- B.M., Northwestern University, 1983
Biography
Jeffrey Smith is currently adjunct professor of organ at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He was previously canon director of music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. While at Grace Cathedral, Smith conducted its Choir of Men and Boys, planned and conducted tours and recordings, and oversaw an extensive concert series.
Smith has experience with choir tours, with a CD recording and choir tour in 2007 that included performances at Westminster Abbey, Chartres Cathedral, and Notre Dame de Paris. He conducted the Grace Cathedral Choir in its Italian tour in 2009, with concerts and liturgies in San Marco, Venice and the Sistine Chapel, among other historic venues. He was the music director at Saint Paul's Parish, K Street, in Washington D.C. from 1992 to 2004. He is also active as a choral conductor, workshop leader, 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 and 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.
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.