Welcome to jeffmusic. Jeffmusic features music composed and performed by violinist Jeff Hentschel. Here you will find many early pieces written in Soundtrack. Later pieces are composed using Logic Express. While music by Jeff Hentschel can be classified under many different categories, much of his later works are jazz violin. Jeff plays the electric violin in many of the pieces and uses a keyboard for creating the other instruments. Jeffmusic also offers a collection of CD covers, as well as other material such as EXS samples. Papers and presentations by Jeff Hentschel are also included in the Bonus Tracks section of the site. Below you will find jeffmusic news, and top music stories collected from a variety of music related sites. If you would like to contact jeffmusic, you may send an email and you might get a reply.

06-29-06 So I just realized that I forgot a '.' which of course meant that you could not download Unchiseled Sapphire: I. It now works. You can now also view this site at it's mirror.

06-13-06 I've released the demo version of my latest piece, Unchiseled Sapphire: I. This is my first large scale 'orchestral' work and I plan to record it in the next few months. I also plan to have two other movements.

06-13-06 I've decided to try to keep a back up of the website on my CS account, so the downtime will be a lot less.

06-11-06 Alright. Server is back up. Sorry for any inconvenience.

06-09-06 Server Downtime. On the bright side, I finished my first year of college! It feels good to be free, if only for a little bit. However, this means of course that I will be moving my computer. The site is expected to be back up and running sometime on Sunday, 06-11-06. To listen to my pieces, you can check out my iCompositions account. Also, I've been working on a really big piece lately, so hopefully I'll have it up in a couple of weeks.

06-02-06 I just got an invite code to Google Analytics so we'll see how it goes. It looks pretty good.

05-26-06 Classical Review: The Russian Greats
Disclaimer: I perform with Philharmonia, so the review may be biased.
Tonight, Philharmonia, comprised mostly of non-music majors put on a show dubbed "The Russian Greats." While Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev are clearly great, where does Bordin fit in? To start off the program, guest conductor Christina Chen conducted the simple and repetative In the Steppes of Central Asia by Borodin. The piece was performed well, which is good considering there were only two main melodies to get down. However, perhaps the lighter piece was chosen as a contrast to the masterpieces that followed.

Gared Crawford took the stage for the second piece, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto. His amazing performance surely dazzled the audience with excellent runs and wonderful style. During the slower parts, the tone he produced was extremely rich in color. The orchestra stayed with him most of the time, although it could have been better.

After intermission, Dr. Robert Hasty conducted Tchaikovsky's Symphony 2 "Little Russian." I'm not quite sure what happened in the first movement, but the overall togetherness was lacking. Fortunately, the orchestra seemed to get back on track by the end and most of the rest of the performance was excellent. There was one part where the horns seemed to be out of tune with each other, which was too bad bad since they were rather exposed. The presto finale was performed amazingly well and definitely excited the audience who applauded loudly and gave a standing ovation.

As this was the last concert of the season, the repetoire performed was the best of all concerts, and perhaps the performance was one of the best. After intermession, Dr. Hasty read the names of the seniors and bid them farewell. This was a great concert to end the season with.

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