Jeffrey Bernstein is a California-based composer, conductor, pianist and educator. He is founding director of the Pasadena Master Chorale and artistic director of the Los Angeles Daiku and was for eleven years director of choral music at Occidental College. Bernstein holds music degrees from Harvard, Yale and UCLA. He has led choirs on fourteen tours of four continents and traveled extensively as a guest conductor, directing choirs and orchestras in Europe, Japan and throughout the United States.
Recently premiered works include Dreams of Japan with the Tokushima Symphony, Fukushima Requiem with the Los Angeles Daiku Orchestra, and The Human Journey and 21st Century 23rd Psalm, both commissioned and premiered by the L.A. Choral Lab.
Bernstein performs solo concerts of improvised piano music has released three piano albums: PianoJournals (2012), Clear Mind Calm Water (2015) and The Desert House (2015). A committed educator and strong advocate for children, Bernstein is the songwriter for the PBS Kids animated series “Let’s Go Luna”, and he teaches at the Pasadena Waldorf School.
