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Music
Director and Conductor
Jeffrey Jones-Ragona |
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 Jeffrey
Jones-Ragona's association with GSSA dates back to 1994, when
he led the Society's production of The HMS Pinafore.
He has led nearly every annual production since then and was
officially
appointed as Music Director in 2005, when Ralph MacPhail was
appointed as Artistic Director. His work with the Society has
garnered critical praise and several B. Iden Payne award nominations.
In 2003 he received the B. Iden Payne award for his musical
direction of The
Pirates of Penzance.
Jeffrey is also the founder of the choral-orchestral ensemble
Musica Ecclesiæ, and has also served as the Artistic
Director of the Capital City Men's Chorus, the Director of
Music at the Cathedral of Saint Mary, and as Conductor of the
Makheilah at Temple Beth Israel.
He has taught on the music
faculties of Drake University, St. Edward's University, and
Southwestern University. He has over a dozen commercial recording
credits and as a soloist has toured throughout North and South
America. Jeffrey
received his DMA in Conducting from the University of Texas
in 2006.
In 2008, A-R Editions, a Classical Music publishing
firm, will publish Jeffrey's edition of Niccolò Jommelli's "Requiem
in E_flat Major" (1756), and it will be the first scholarly
edition published of this once-famous masterpiece.
December 2007 |
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