Jeffrey Stock composes a wide range of music, from the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Triumph of Love starring Betty Buckley and F. Murray Abraham, to a symphonic and choral commission premiered at Carnegie Hall featuring the world’s most renowned cellist, Yo-Yo Ma. He wrote the music and lyrics for A Room with a View, produced at the San Diego Old Globe and Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for music, an NEA Grant, the Jonathan Larson Grant, and is a three-time finalist for the Kleban Prize for lyrics. He is also a music critic, food blogger, teacher and photographer.
His songs have been performed and recorded by such award-winning artists as Norm Lewis, Melissa Errico, Kelli O’Hara, Susan Egan, Joan Morris & William Bolcom, Karen Mason, Chuck Cooper, Karen Ziemba, Malcolm Gets, Judy Kuhn, and Terrence Mann.
He has earned residencies at artist colonies including MacDowell and Blue Mountain Center. Since 1999, he has spent several months a year living in Bali, Indonesia, intensively studying the local language, customs, and music. In 1994 he had the opportunity to study in Japan with legendary composer Toru Takemitsu. For 10 years he served as musical theater columnist and critic for Tower Records’ national music magazine PULSE! He is also the author of the food blog fooditude.net. He received a BA in music from Yale University.