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JEFFREY BISHOP (b. 1970)

Jeffrey Bishop is the Director of Orchestras and Division Coordinator of Fine Arts at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee Mission, Kansas. At Northwest he conducts three string orchestras, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and the Early Music Ensemble. He is also the Music Director/Conductor of the Youth Symphony of Kansas City Symphonette West Orchestra.

A published composer and writer, Jeffrey is in demand as a clinician throughout the United States. He has appeared as a clinician at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic and at the ASTA with NSOA National Convention. He has guest-conducted orchestras in Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oregon, and Minnesota. His articles have appeared in the books Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra (Volumes 1 & 2), and in the magazines The Instrumentalist and Orchestra News.

Jeffrey won the 1997 National School Orchestra Association Composition Contest with his ?Symphony for Strings No. 1.? Since then he has had nearly three-dozen pieces published. He continues to receive commissions from college, high school, regional, and state orchestras across the country.

Jeffrey earned his bachelor of music education degree from Northwest Missouri State University. He then went on to complete his master of music in conducting at the Wichita State University School of Music.

Website: www.jeffreysbishop.com

WORKS

Concert Band
Arthurian Symphony, The
Prairie Fire
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight

Orchestra
Adagio (string orchestra)
Artemis Rising (string or full orchestra)
Ballade (string orchestra)
Brigid's Fire (string orchestra)
Geminus Sonus (string orchestra)
Orpheus in the Underworld (string or full orchestra) - Offenbach
Over the Hills (string or full orchestra)
Raven's Flight (string orchestra)