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Born in Canterbury, James Huw Jeffries began his musical education as a chorister in the choir of St John's College, Cambridge. Subsequently, he read Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, furthering his vocal studies at the Royal College of Music, London, where he was awarded the Henry Blower Prize, and at the Britten-Pears School. A former Recommended Artist of the National Federation of Music Societies, he was selected by the Koninklijke Christelijke Zangersbond for the 1996 Erna Spoorenberg Solistenpresentatie in The Netherlands and made his London solo debut in Israel in Egypt at St John's, Smith Square. |
James Huw Jeffries’ operatic engagements have included Oberon A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Theater des Landeshauptstadt, Magdeburg, Athamas Semele for Mayfield Chamber Opera, Orfeo Orfeo ed Euridice for Opera Spezzata, Poro for Antahkarana, Rinaldo for Abbey Opera, Andronico Tamerlano and Pastore L’Orfeo at the Aldeburgh Festival, Nerone L’Incoronazione di Poppea for the Cavalli Baroque Ensemble, The Spirit Dido and Aeneas for the English Bach Festival, The Countertenor in Heiner Goebbels' SCHLIEMANN Scaffolding for diplous Eros at The Theseum, Athens and Cupid in Jacques van Rhijn's Venus for Torn Halves Music Theatre. He has also covered Bishop Baldwin Gawain for the Royal Opera and Buggen in The Fairy Queen for English National Opera.
James Huw Jeffries is also experienced as a concert artist, his engagements having taken him throughout the UK and also to Europe and North America. Singing under conductors such as Martyn Brabbins, Fabian Dobler, Pieter Jan Leusink, Brian Kay, Paul McCreesh, Andrew Parrott, Penelope Rapson, Wolfgang Seeliger and Eberhard Volk, his concert appearances have included performances with the Darmstadt Hofkapelle, the Magdeburg Philharmonic, the Mainz Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra of Wales, the New Hamilton Orchestra, Canada, the Netherlands Bach Collegium, the Northern Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Golden Age, the Orchestra of St Cecilia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Opera Orchestra and the London premiere of Schnittke's Faust. He has sung at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, at the Brighton, Birmingham Early Music, Edinburgh, Leith Hill and St Ceciliatide, London, Festivals, the Barbican Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, St James's, Piccadilly, St John's, Smith Square, the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, the Snape Maltings, the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, and in most of the UK Cathedrals.
James Huw Jeffries' future engagements include further performances as Oberon in Sommernachtstraum in Magdeburg, Nireno in Giulio Cesare for the Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen (with Andreas Scholl as Cesare), the Chichester Psalms in Gloucester Cathedral, Messiah with the Manchester Camerata, Alice in Wonderland at the Royal Netherlands Opera and a wide range of performances with choral societies throughout the UK.