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Jeff Macko
Height: 6'1" · Weight: 180 · Hair Color: Brown · Eye Color: Blue · Special Skills: Drums; Timpani; Percussion · Hometown: Detroit, MI · High School: Univ. of Detroit HS · College: Loyola University New Orleans
Jeff Macko received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from Loyola University, New Orleans. A native of Detroit, Jeff transplanted to Atlanta in 2000 after spending 26 years playing and teaching in New Orleans. He has been a member of or has played with the following: the New Orleans Pops ...Read More
Jeff Macko received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from Loyola University, New Orleans. A native of Detroit, Jeff transplanted to Atlanta in 2000 after spending 26 years playing and teaching in New Orleans. He has been a member of or has played with the following: the New Orleans Pops Orchestra, the New Orleans Civic Symphony, the New Orleans Ballet Orchestra, the Jefferson Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Crescent City Wind Symphony. A very active musician in theatre, Jeff has played for over 130 musicals and was the drummer/percussionist for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society Theatre Wing for seven seasons, for the Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre for seven years, for Le Petite Theatre du Vieux Carre for three years, and for Rivertown Repertory Theatre for five years. Also, being the house percussionist for the Saenger Theatre in downtown New Orleans for six seasons gave Jeff the opportunity to play for many Broadway road shows, including “The Will Roger Follies,” “Crazy for You,” “Grease,” and Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” On drum set, he has played with a very wide variety of groups in the Crescent City, most notably “Jubilation,” the New Orleans Saints Band, the 1984 Louisiana World Expo Band, the Jimmy Maxwell Band, and the Jerry Leonard Society Orchestra. Jeff has been teaching drums for the past 30 years, and was the drum set / percussion instructor at Tulane University where he taught for 15 years, from 1985 to 2000. Some of the artists that Jeff has had the privilege of playing for include: Ray Charles, Regis and Kathy Lee, Steve Allen, Jodi Benson, Frank Gorshin, Robert Goulet, Marie Osmond, Jerry Lewis, Florence Henderson, the 5th Dimension, the Coasters, the Platters, and Tony Bennett. Currently, Jeff is the drum / percussion instructor at South Hill Studio in Buford, GA. He has also taught at the following venues in the metro Atlanta area: Ken Stanton Music (Marietta), Music Dox (Marietta), McEachern Band Conservatory (Powder Springs), and Attina’s Music (Fayetteville). Jeff has acted as a coach for the percussion sections of Crabapple Middle School and Ridgeview Middle School, and founded and directed a percussion ensemble at High Point Elementary School, which premiered pieces that he wrote in May 2001 and May 2002. Since arriving in Atlanta, Jeff has played with The George Carre Band, the Atlanta Wind Symphony, Bob Martin’s Take Note Big Band, the Peach Trio, the Mount Paran Church of God Orchestra, the Stage Door Players, the Laigh Langley Band, the Rehoboth Baptist Church Orchestra, The Sugarloaf Community Church Band, the John’s Creek Baptist Church Orchestra, and The Atlanta Lyric Theatre.
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