Jeffrey Loeffert is Professor and Director of the School of Performing Arts (Music | Theatre | Cinema) at Virginia Tech and Executive Director of The College Music Society. A founding member of the acclaimed h2 quartet, he has earned top honors at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the North American Saxophone Alliance Quartet Competition. With h2, Loeffert appears on eleven commercially released recordings and was featured on PBS’s Backstage Pass. The quartet’s recording of Marc Mellits’s Groove Canon was selected as the monologue theme for the Broadway production of The Heidi Chronicles starring Elisabeth Moss and Jason Biggs. Loeffert has performed at leading venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Times Center and Merkin Hall (New York), the National Concert Hall (Dublin), the Guarnerius Center for the Performing Arts (Belgrade), and the Sarajevo Music Academy, as well as on numerous university stages across the United States. An active composer, Loeffert’s works have been performed throughout the U.S. and abroad, including at Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) conferences and festivals across Europe and Asia. His Bombinate appears on SCI CD Series, Volume 31, and he was named the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association’s 2018 Commissioned Composer. His music is recorded and distributed on multiple labels. Loeffert is also a dedicated educator and mentor. He teaches each summer at the Great Plains Saxophone Workshop and has recently served on faculty or presented at the Asia Pacific Saxophone Academy (Bangkok), the Singapore Saxophone Symposium, the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy), and New Music on the Point (Vermont). A proud Yamaha Performing Artist, he performs exclusively on Yamaha saxophones. A summa cum laude graduate of Northwestern University, Loeffert earned a Bachelor of Music with a double major in Saxophone Performance and Jazz Studies, receiving the Program Honors Award. As a Frank Huntington Beebe Scholar, he studied in Paris at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Cergy-Pontoise, earning the Médaille d’Or à l’Unanimité in both Saxophone and Chamber Music, and at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne-Billancourt (Cycle d’Orientation Professionnel). He completed graduate studies at Michigan State University as a University Distinguished Fellow, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in Saxophone Performance and a Master of Music in Music Theory Pedagogy, and received the Paul Harder Award for excellence in theory and composition.
