Jeffrey Hutchins - Music Director

BIO:

Jeffrey Charles Hutchins grew up singing in the Trinity Choir of Men and Boys, New Haven, and has since branched out into many denominations as a church musician, cantor and conductor. The Episcopal Church is definitely home base. A professional singer, Jeff takes pleasure in sight-reading choral music and feeling the “broader” rhythm (of life) that such music illustrates. He is a Music Major at SCSU who is also taking classes at Gateway Community College. Jeff appears in recordings singing Alto, Tenor, and Bass (comfortably; as needed), with the Trinity Choir, The Saint Gregory Society of New Haven, the Christ Church Choir of New Haven and Saint Paul’s Church Choir Fairfield. More recently, Jeff has been a staff singer with the Connecticut Composers’ Choir, which records only new music. Jeff’s teachers include Walden Moore, Nicholas Renouf, Tom Brand and Britt Wheeler along with many others (both within and without church music). Jeff is proficient on the keyboard, guitar, violin and drums, but is most comfortable conducting the choir, singing, and arranging. Jeff was a 12-year student at Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, playing in the “Premier String Quartet”. He received scholarships and music awards during his time at Hamden Hall Country Day School. Jeff has been invited to sing at Wells Cathedral, England; Church of the Advent, Boston; and Trinity Copley Square, Boston. As a Treble boy, he was invited to understudy the role of Amahl in Amahl and the Night Visitors (Little Orchestra Society’s NYC annual production). Jeff was then invited to take on that role the next year, but his voice changed. Jeff is still an active choral musician in Connecticut and is immensely grateful to be involved and employed in the music making at Church of the Holy Spirit, West Haven.

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