Bio
Jeff French began playing piano at the age of eight, but it would be two years before he started taking lessons. Jeff's grandfather, Frank, was a gifted pianist playing for movie theatres in Ohio. "I was often told that I inherited my grandfather's talent," Jeff says. When Frank passed away, his piano was passed down to Jeff. Soon, Jeff was composing his own music on it. He received a music scholarship to Wayne State University in Detroit where he studied music theory and composition.
Jeff has had an active career in theatre as performer, director, and composer/arranger. he has co-written several musicals and attributes his passion for music and theatre to his parents who kept music a part of regular family life. Both of his parents were actively involved in church choirs and his father sang lead in a barbershop quartet. Family dinners often ended with singing around the table.
