Staff Profile

Mr. Jeffrey is the Choral Director at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, IL where he teaches four curricular choirs. His extra-curricular responsibilities include jazz choir, madrigals, vocal directing the school musical and overseeing student run a cappella ensembles. He came to Glenbard West from Frontier High School in Bakersfield, CA where he opened the high school and built a program that included 215 students in 5 curricular choirs. Previous to his time in California, Mr. Jeffrey was the head of music at Rossington All Saints School in Rossington, England. Prior to that, he taught choir at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, IL and spent four years at Westminster Christian School in Elgin, IL where he taught K-12 music and drama. Mr. Jeffrey has been active as a clinician at festivals in Illinois and California. He is also an active church musician. Mr. Jeffrey holds a bachelor of music degree in education from Taylor University in Upland, IN and a master of music degree in education from Northern Illinois University. He is an active member in the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association for Music Education. He serves on the IL-ACDA state board as the TTBB R and S Chair and the state committee for the Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance. He has also been a long time member of the St. Charles Singers, a professional choir based out of St. Charles, IL.