Hailing from Vestal, New York, Jeffrey has excelled in a variety of artistic disciplines. His notable achievements in dance include titles such as Junior Mr. Headliner, Teen Mr. Headliner, Teen Dancer of the Year, Mr. Dance of the USA, and the International King of Dance. He founded Dance by Jeff, recognized as one of the Top 100 businesses by Young Biz Magazine. Jeffrey has performed and taught master classes across the United States, Canada, Germany, and Russia. On stage, Jeffrey has portrayed leading roles in The Pirates of Penzance (Frederick), The Mikado (Nanki-Poo), My Fair Lady (Freddy Hill), Hello Dolly (Barnaby Tucker), and A Chorus Line (Mike). As a vocalist, he has performed at prominent events, including the Laguna Seca Raceway, the San Francisco 49ers’ Season Opening celebration, the Sky Chiefs Salute to the Armed Forces Game, and the Concorso Italiano in Monterey, California. He has had the honor of performing for military leaders, international dignitaries, and state and local officials. Jeffrey’s extensive musical direction includes productions such as Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast, Cabaret, South Pacific, and The King & I. He is the founder and Musical Director of the Binghamton Baroque Orchestra and a founding member of the Claude Bolling Jazz Experience in Concert. As a conductor, he has led orchestras, brass bands, and choirs globally and served as Music Supervisor and Conductor for the film Toddler Tartar. An accomplished instrumentalist and composer, Jeffrey has been a featured performer in the U.S., Germany, Canada, and Russia. Since 2017, he has been a guest artist and instructor at the Songe d'été en Musique Music School and Festival in Canada. His original works, including The Woods of Windsor, have been performed nationwide, and his compositions were featured in Nevermore - An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe at the International Poe Festival (2019-2021) and the Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s Romeo & Juliet. Jeffrey proudly served in the U.S. Navy for 11 years, retiring as Chief Petty Officer in 2015. His commendations include the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal (2), Good Conduct Medal (3), and others.

Michael N. McAndrew is currently instructor of Piano and Theory at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas - where he serves as Assistant Director of Choral Activities, music director for the Opera Theatre, and teaches Music Theory and Ear Training. He also maintains an active schedule as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach, currently as coaching staff for Songe d’été en musique in Quebec, Canada and DuoMotive with flutist, Michelle Li. He has also played with the Symphony of Southeast Texas, Opera Saratoga, Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, Springfield Symphony Orchestra (OH), Central Illinois Youth Chorus, Summer Harmony Men's Chorus, Tri-Cities Opera, Binghamton Community Orchestra, Penn State Scranton Chorale, the Foothills Opera Experience, All Score Urbana, and artists from Northern Ireland Opera. He has worked with artists such as Phil Woods, Randy Brecker, Bob Dorough, the Momenta Quartet, Michelle DeYoung, Julian Ovenden, Jeffrey Biegel, Brad White, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Jeffrey Wahl, Julie and Nathan Gunn, Ricardo Herrera, Audrey Vallance, Marc Webster, Joshua Glasner, and Maryte Bizinkauskas. Michael was also founder and director/pianist of the Night of Stars concert series, which fundraised for several organizations in the Southern Tier area of New York.

As a composer, he has been hailed as "harmonically gorgeous", with a desire "to hear more from him". He has had pieces premiered by the DeMarina Trio, Plexus Collective, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the Bel Canto Children's Chorus, and the Momenta Quartet in various venues such as the Crane School of Music, the Beleura House and Garden (Victoria, Australia), Zoellner Arts Center, ICA's Clarinet Fest, and at the renowned Christmas Vespers at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, PA. He was selected as the winner of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem's 2nd Annual Young Composer Competition in 2012 and was finalist in the 2019 NATS Art Song Competition for his cycle of the element and in the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies Call for Scores for his orchestral work Sandcastles of Yesterday. The first act of his opera, [i am a city], based on a libretto by Bogdan Mynka, premiered in workshop format in March 2020. His song “Air Castles” from the cycle of the element… was published by North Star Music in their Soprano “Modern Music for New Singers” anthology. Michael’s arrangements have also been heard in multiple countries, including Ireland and South Korea in 2024.

Michael received his DMA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying collaborative piano with Casey Robards and Michael Tilley, and composition with Carlos Carrillo. He was also a double recipient of the Nancy Kennedy Wustman Award in Vocal Accompanying in 2019 and 2021. While at UIUC, Michael was assistant conductor for The Rape of Lucretia, and music directed Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at the Allerton Barn, which saw a repeat performance in January of 2020 after much acclaim. As music staff, he has also taken part in productions of La Bohéme, Crazy for You, Cunning Little Vixen, Cabaret, A Little Night Music, Vanessa, The Turn of the Screw, and The Last American Hammer. He was also Chorus Master for Sinfonia da Camera’s performance of H.M.S. Pinafore and head vocal coach for Springfield Symphony Orchestra’s Pirates of Penzance. His doctoral thesis "From Obscurity to New Relevancy: A More Accessible Approach to Samuel Barber's Vanessa", was a re-orchestration and performance of Vanessa for fourteen musicians, as well as deeper historical study into the work as a whole. These re-orchestrations have been the backbone of his work at Lamar University, where he established the opera orchestra, and created arrangements for Gluck’s Der Betrogene Kadi and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.

Michael holds additional degrees from Binghamton University (MM), where he studied composition with Daniel Thomas Davis and collaborative piano with Joel Harder, and Moravian College (BM), where studied composition with Larry Lipkis and Sean O’ Boyle, piano with Barbara Thompson, and collaborative piano with Graeme Burgan. He remains an active church musician and was music director at Faith United Methodist Church in Champaign, IL before coming to Lamar. While there, he also studied organ with Michael Fisher. Recent engagements include participation in the 2023 NATS Intern Program, the re-orchestration of Verdi's La Traviata and Puccini’s La Boheme for the Bay View Music Festival in Petoskey, Michigan, as pianist for the Society of Composer’s Inc. call for scores as part of their 2022 and 2023 National Conferences, and as pianist for Deus Ex Musica in Champaign and Petoskey, as part of their In the Shadow of Your Wings series, featuring contemporary settings of the Psalms. Michael also serves as the Commissioned Composer Chair and Composition Competition Chair for the Texas Music Teacher’s Association. To find out more about him, you can visit his website: https://www.michaelnmcandrew.com