2026 Adjudicators

Jeff has recently retired from thirty years of teaching elementary and high school music in York Region. He was the Head of the Music Department at Unionville High School in Markham, Ontario for twenty years where he worked with students of all levels and disciplines. His award-winning ensembles regularly received the highest ratings at provincial and national festivals and competitions. Jeff has been awarded multiple Conducting Excellence Awards at the Ontario Band Associations (OBA) Provincial Band Festival and is the founding Director of the OBA's Ontario Provincial Honour Band. He is
currently working with school groups through the Ontario Educational Leadership Centre (OELC), is a sessional lecturer with the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto and is a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator across Ontario.

Jeff received his Honours Bachelor of Music Education from Western University and his Bachelor of Education from Nipissing University. He also recently received the 2025 Arts Ambassador Award from the City of Markham.