Brian Jeffers is a NYC-based vocalist and actor praised for his “flexible and heroic tenor” (Opera News).  His 2024/2025 engagements include Maestro with the NY Philharmonic Chorus, and house debuts with Knoxville Opera (Cendrillon-Count Barigoule) and Opera Omaha (The Rake’s Progress-Sellem)

In 2016 he made his professional debut in the world premiere of Jonathan Dawe’s Nero and the Fall of Lehman Brothers at Columbia University’s Casa Italiana and was a Guest Artist at The Juilliard School’s revival of Dawe’s Cracked Orlando. He has also performed with Opera Saratoga, On Site Opera, Mostly Mozart Festival, New Amsterdam Opera, Axelrod Performing Arts Center and City Lyric Opera.

Active in choral and popular repertoire, he is a member of the New York Philharmonic Chorus, and has performed the solos in Mozart’s Requiem, To Be Certain of a Dawn (Paulus), King David (Honegger), The Creation (Haydn) at ASU Gammage, Vesperae solennes de confessore (Mozart) and Messiah (Handel). He has performed as a backing vocalist for Kristin Chenoweth with the Phoenix Symphony, and in early 2023, appeared with the Gloria choir and Sharon Stone on Saturday Night Live with musical guest, Sam Smith.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa and a native of Omaha, Nebraska, Brian earned his BM in Vocal Performance with a minor in Musical Theatre from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music. He holds his MM in Music Theatre-Opera Performance from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Voice teachers and mentors have included soprano and researcher Dr. Jamie Reimer, bass-baritone Gordon Hawkins, and tenors Vinson Cole and Bill Burden.