Jeff Christmas

Jeff Christmas began playing music when he was 6 years old. Since then he has made his way from pop guitar to musical theater to jazz bands to opera to Americana and just about everything in between. Jeff specializes in vocal instruction with experience in a wide variety of genres. He is equally at home on the operatic stage and in a smoky bar. Pedagogically, Jeff believes that no genre has a monopoly on good, healthy, artistic singing and works to nurture that in all of his students. He also is addicted to that connected feeling we can find when making music together in a room and works to find and cultivate that feeling with students and collaborators. 

Jeff was raised in Burlington, North Carolina and has lived in California, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and South Carolina before moving to Portland in 2015. He got his undergraduate degree at Appalachian State University (vocal studies with Dr. Julia Pedigo) and then went on to get a Masters of Music from the Boston Conservatory (studying with William Cotten, Michael Strauss, Sheri Greenawald). He loves writing songs, playing music with other people, being with his family, hiking, biking, and eating amazing vegetarian foods.