Jeffrey Howard
Jeffrey Howard was born in Cardiff and studied
at the University of Wales College, Cardiff, and the Royal Academy
of Music, specializing in organ performance and church music.
Since graduating, he has pursued a freelance career as organist,
pianist, singer, coach and conductor. He has accompanied
leading international singers including Bryn Terfel, Sir Willard
White, and, Rebecca Evans.
Jeff has performed throughout the United Kingdom and Europe
including the Wigmore Hall, The Goethe Institute, Brussels, and St.
Paul’s Cathedral, and has worked with orchestras such as The
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Royal
Philharmonic. He made his Royal Albert Hall debut in 2002 as
soloist in Shostakovitch’s second piano concerto. Recent
performance include performed Rachmaninov’s second piano
concerto and Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto at St. David’s Hall,
Cardiff with the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra and a recital with
Bryn Terfel at Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.
Jeff frequently provides arrangements for the BBC National
Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, S4C and various solo artists.
He is accompanist, singer and arranger for Only Men Aloud!, winners
of the BBC competition ‘Last Choir Standing’ who recently won a
Classical Brit Award for their second album on the Universal label.
Jeff is also involved in cabaret and music theatre having worked
with names such as Michael Ball, David Owen Jones, Peter Karrie,
and more informally, Dame Shirley Bassey!
For the past 18 years, Jeffrey has held a post as vocal coach at
the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and at Welsh National
Opera and Welsh National Youth Opera.