Jeffrey Kaufman

Jeffrey Kaufman was born in 1947. He attended and received degrees from The Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School of Music. Amongst his teachers are Nicolas Flagella, Ludmilla Ulehia and David Diamond. He has received awards and grants from: The New York State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, The Alice Ditson Fund, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Meet the Composer, ASCAP Standard Panel Awards, Gold Award from The International Film and TV Festival of New York, and is a 3 time Grammy Award nominee.

In the early 1970s he became one of the first Music Producers for National Public Radio for which he created and produced MEET THE COMPOSER with host-moderator Martin Bookspan, which was heard on over 200 radio stations weekly for 6 years. Early in his career he became Music Director for the Woodstock superstar Richie Havens and went on to produce many recordings and concerts with Mr. Havens and other pop/rock personalities.

In 1978 he created the record label Phoenix USA (a label devoted to contemporary music) with an emphasis on American Composers). He has also created several other labels which produced and distributed various styles of Classical, Jazz and Instrumental Music.

Under the auspices of Absolut Vodka, several productions were created and produced by Stratta Philips Productions, including the 5-year series ABSOLUT CONCERTO, for which I was a consultant. Works by some of America’s most outstanding composers, including: Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Torke, Morton Gould, Ned Rorem, David Diamond, William Bolcom and Richard Danielpour

These were presented at Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall with The New Jersey Symphony, The American Symphony Orchestra, and The Orchestra of Saint Lukes.