Clinician – Mixed Choir

Shannon Jeffreys is Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities, and Assistant Dean for Student Experience in the College of Arts and Humanities at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. Her focus is the Southern Chorale, teaching in the undergraduate and graduate conducting and music education curriculums, along with directing Southern Gentry barbershop ensemble. Dr. Jeffreys has led these choirs in six international choral competitions and two national competitions where the choirs won significant awards. Most recently, Southern Chorale won both of their categories in the 2022 Sing Berlin International Choral Competition. In 2019, she received the Conductor’s Award from the Ave Verum International Choral Competition in Baden, Austria. Choirs under her direction have also been featured at multiple state and national conferences, recently performing at the National Collegiate Choral Organization’s Conference.

Dr. Jeffreys maintains an active schedule as a presenter, adjudicator, lecturer and guest conductor from secondary to collegiate institutions and churches throughout the United States. She serves as an international choral adjudicator with Meeting Music and recently published in ACDA’s ChorTeach.

Before coming to Georgia Southern, Jeffreys served as Director of Vocal Studies at Erskine College and Theological Seminary. She holds degrees in music performance and conducting from Birmingham Southern College, the University of Mississippi, and the University of South Carolina.