Jeff enjoys a varied career playing the violin, piano and accordion as well as composing. Since leaving Goldsmiths’ College, he has played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, London Mozart Players and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has also worked as Music Director for many shows with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Birmingham Rep and the National Theatre. Jeff’s piece for children and professionals The Gypsy’s Violin has received numerous performances across the country and beyond, including a hugely successful performance by London Symphony Orchestra in Paris, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. His recent piece The Sea and The Sky was commissioned by the LSO and was premiered in June 2011.

"What a great character! Multi-instrumentalist and raconteur. I met him whilst working in Litcham in August 1990, and soon found myself together with him playing trombone in his oom-pah band. Thereafter we kept meeting up at all kinds of classical and wind band performances, John usually playing bassoon, but one never could predict whether he would suddenly demonstrate proficiency on a different instrument. I believe he had onetime been a violist. He told me a couple of years ago that he had steadfastly refused to undergo heart surgery, and he defiantly remained a smoker. Here was a man who lived Life to the full, and had no fear of Death. So great to have known him."