Dr. Jeffery Redding

Conductor, 2024 High School Honors Choir (Royal Festival Hall); 2023 High School Honors Choir (Sydney Opera House); 2022 and 2017 Young Adult Honors Choir (Carnegie Hall); 2020 and 2018 High School Honors Concert Choir (Carnegie Hall); 2019 Young Adult Honors Choir (Sydney Opera House)

Dr. Jeffery Redding is the current Director of Choral Activities at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Previously he has had appointments as the Director of Choral Activities at West Virginia University and Director of Choral Activities at West Orange High School in Florida. He has been featured as guest conductor at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Orchestra Hall on numerous occasions. Dr. Redding has conducted several divisional and national American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Honor Choirs, as well as All-State and Honor choirs in approximately 40 states. In 2014, he was the only American adjudicator at the International Choral Festival in Verona, Italy. He is a member of ACDA, NAfME, FVA, NATS, and Chorus America. Currently, he is the State R&S Chair for High School Mixed Choir for Florida ACDA, and he was awarded the R. Wayne Hogoboom Distinguished Service Award for dedicated service, leadership, and excellence by the Florida Chapter of ACDA in November 2015. Dr. Redding was also the recipient of the 2019 GRAMMY Music Educator Award™ – awarded annually to one outstanding music educator in the United States. Dr. Redding holds a Ph.D. in Choral Conducting/Music Education and an M.M.E., both from Florida State University, and a B.S. in Music Education from Florida A&M University.