Matthew Jeffrey
Matthew works as a conductor, singer, and singing teacher in and around Exeter and the rest of Devon.
His conducting career started in 2018, when he took over the Exeter University Singers, the University’s chamber choir. With this group he has covered repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony to music by living composers, and has collaborated with world-famous chamber choir, Voces8. While at University, he was the musical director of the University’s opera society, with whom he conducted fully staged performances of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, along with several concerts and orchestral galas.
He also took over as the Musical Director of Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir in February 2023. Matthew teaches singing at Exeter Cathedral School and Blundell’s School in Tiverton, where he also helps to run choirs throughout the school, ranging from the chorister choir consisting of younger children, to the Cantorum, made up of the school’s most experienced singers.
Matthew is a Tenor Lay Clerk, a full-time professional singer, in Exeter Cathedral choir, with whom he has been involved in a variety of concerts, singing solos in Bach’s St. John Passion, on Radio 3 broadcasts, and in concert with the world-renowned viol consort, Fretwork. He has a busy schedule as a solo singer around Devon and Somerset, with engagements including Bach’s B Minor Mass and St. John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Purcell’s Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day and Haydn’s The Creation to name a few. Matthew was a member of the 11th Genesis Sixteen cohort, the highly competitive choral scholarship scheme run by The Sixteen, one of the country’s best choral ensembles.
