Othello Jefferson

Othello Jefferson is a native of San Francisco. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Single Subject Music Credential from San Francisco State University. As Choir Director at his alma mater, Lowell High School, he worked with Michael Morgan (Oakland East Bay Symphony), The King’s Singers, and Chanticleer and won performance awards in the International Children’s Culture and Art Festival in Shenzhen, China. Othello is the recipient of a Gospel Music Award from San Francisco’s Academy of Gospel and a Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers Award from the Friends Of Negro Spirituals in Oakland. He is the Choir Director at Redwood City’s Sequoia High School, Minister Of Music at First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (San Francisco), and Minister Of Music for the Western Episcopal District, and San Francisco. Othello has completed the first level of the American Guild of Organists examinations for professional certification (Service Playing Certificate).