Charles L. Booker Jr.

Dr. Jeffrey S. Bishop is a music educator, composer, and conductor from Kansas City, Kansas. Jeffrey’s compositions for string orchestra, full orchestra, concert band, and choir have been commissioned and performed in the United States, Mexico, Australia, and throughout Europe. The recipient of the 1997 National School Orchestra Association Composition Contest Award with his “Symphony for Strings No. 1,” Jeffrey has nearly one hundred instrumental pieces published by Wingert-Jones Publications, Alfred Publishing Company, the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, and C-Alan Publications. His choral music is distributed exclusively by MusicSpoke.com. Jeffrey is also an adjunct professor at the University of Kansas School of Music where he teaches “Arranging for the Music Educator,” a graduate course that he designed for the music education curriculum. Jeffrey’s music is marked by strong pedagogical influences along with a traditional style that is at times reminiscent of the Renaissance period. He values melody and harmonic structure and strives to engage the audience as much as the performers through his music.