Jeff Newberry enjoys a varied career as a conductor, music supervisor, music director, composer, orchestrator, arranger, sound designer, and educator working in theatre, concert, and community spaces. 

 

For Mirvish Productions, Jeff is Conductor and Music Director of Disney’s THE LION KING in Toronto. At the Capitol Theatre (Port Hope) his projects have included: A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE (Music Director); CHRISTMASTOWN, PRAIRIE NURSE (Composer and Sound Designer); and the ongoing BILLBOARD: IN CONCERT series (Music Supervisor + Arranger/Orchestrator). Jeff contributes to the development of new musicals through his work as music supervisor and orchestrator/arranger for the new REZ GAS (Cale Crowe/Genevieve Adam), and as music director for JACOB TWO-TWO MEETS THE HOODED FANG (Britta Johnson/Anika Johnson/Stratford Festival), BLOOD TIES (Anika Johnson/Barbara Johnston), and SUMMERLAND (Anika Johnson/Barbara Johnston/Suzy Wilde). As a composer, his choral music is performed by a growing number of school, community, and university ensembles in Canada and the United States.

 

Jeff taught high school music in the Toronto District School Board for 10 years and now teaches part-time at York University in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design and Randolph College for the Performing Arts. He has won grants to write and record new music from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and York University. He holds a Bachelor of Music (University of Toronto), a Bachelor of Education (Queen’s University), an Honours Specialist in Vocal Music (OISE) and a Master of Education (York University).