Head of the Music Service
Richard Jeffrey-Gray leads the Music Service. Alongside this role, he composes, conducts and records music for film, stage and broadcast, and writes music for the people of the Clifton Diocese.
His broadcast and recording work includes conducting and writing music for the BBC's worldwide broadcast of the last flight of Concorde, and reconstructing, re-orchestrating and conducting two hours of WWII-era BBC radio comedy for a live broadcast, drawn entirely from surviving recordings. He has written themes and music for television series and for award-winning theatrical productions, and his music has been published by Oxford University Press, among others. In the past five years he has provided sound design for over 250 short films and cinema advertisements, and recently completed music and sound work on seven Hitchcock feature films for the BFI. Some of his work will be on BBC TV and HBO Max on Christmas Day this year. Further information is available at hoxa.net.
At Clifton Cathedral, his work has included conducting and writing for two consecutive Christmas television and radio broadcasts, alongside a substantial body of liturgical music performed internationally.
His approach across these areas is consistent: genre is secondary to craft, performance, storytelling, and the capacity of music to lift the spirit. This approach informs his direction of the Music Service's team of musicians serving the Clifton Diocese.