Director of Music and Pianist
Jeffrey Hamrick
E mail: music@ccuu.org

Jeff has been at Countryside since October 2003 as Pianist and as of January 2006 as Director and Pianist. He stays busy as a Chicago-area singer, accompanist, and diction coach and is employed as a manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press.

Over the past fifteen years, Jeff has been involved with numerous Chicago choirs, including Music of the Baroque, His Majestie's Clerkes, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Scholars of Cambrai, and Cantate. Jeff earned his bachelor's degree with a major in Russian from Emory University (Atlanta) and did graduate work in Slavic linguistics at the University of Chicago. As a Slavic and Romance diction coach, he has worked with the Grant Park Symphony Chorus, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, and Cantate, and is also currently working as accompanist and assistant rehearsal director for Cantate.