Biography

After the sad passing of Jeffrey, his family are keeping this site as a memorial to him and his work. Please use the site, those who knew him can remember with fondness the life and times of a wonderful singer and those that never had the privilege may glean a little of the fun loving person that he was.

Jeffrey began his career touring the world with The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company singing most of the tenor roles in the Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire. Continuing his studies privately enabled him to work with the English National Opera, Covent Garden and many other opera and concert companies throughout Britain and Europe, amassing, in the process, over forty major roles which include Belmonte ‘IL Seraglio’ and Tamino, ‘Die Zauberflöte’ - Mozart, Faust, ‘Faust’ - Gounod, Alfredo, ‘La Traviata’ and Gustavus, ‘Un Ballo In Maschera’ - Verdi, Rodolfo, ‘La Bohème’, Rinuccio, ‘Gianni Schicci’ - Puccini, Don Jose, ‘Carmen’ - Bizet, Herman‘Pique Dame’ - Tchaikovsky and Peter Quint, ‘Turn Of The Screw’- Britten. He has sung opera in Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa where he spent a year as Principal Tenor with the CAPAB Opera Company in Cape Town.

He had many Radio and Television appearances and concert tours to his credit and has been a regular guest artist with Operetta For All, The London Concert Artists, The English Heritage Singers and Much Loved Productions. Jeffrey's repertoire is wide-ranging from Neapolitan and Italian songs, French and German Lieder to Victorian and modern romantic ballads found in the catalogues of such great singer/entertainers as Mario Lanza, Richard Tauber and Placido Domingo.

Oratorio also loomed large in his list of favorites among which were Handel's Messiah, Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Berlioz Grand Messe Des Morts, Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass, Puccini’s Messa Di Gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater, Elgar’s Dream Of Gerontius, Bach’s St John Passion (Tenor Arias), many Bach Cantatas, Masses by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven etc. etc.

Jeffrey created the title role in the Oratorio "Solomon" by William Hayward, also the role of Martin The Cobbler in the Opera "The Visitors" by Donald Swann, and appeared on a new recording of “The Isles Of Greece”, a stage entertainment of Donald Swann’s Greek songs. He has also appeared as the Tenor Piangi in the West End production of "Phantom Of The Opera" and enjoyed a highly successful concert career as one of 'The Three British Tenors', which topped the bill at London Savoy Hotel’s Year 2000 Millennium celebrations.

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