Jeff Costello

Jeff Costello received his BAA from Central Michigan University and his M.Ed from Grand Valley State University. As a vocalist, drummer, guitarist and sound engineer, Jeff has performed pop and rock music for thirty-five years, including three years in the Regional Touring Act, Paris Blue, performing 300+ shows per year in fourteen different US states. Jeff was a Public School Choir Director for twenty-four years. He is a Classically trained vocalist and also directed a church choir (nearly exclusively singing Classical choral repertoire) for ten years.

With his school choirs he incorporated a great deal of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) and utilized sound/recording equipment daily in his classroom. In 2018, Jeff presented How to Stage a Choir Rock Concert at the Association for Popular Music Education Conference in the Nashville area and contributed a chapter to a book called Action Based Approaches in Popular Music Education. In January 2020, Jeff launched the Zeeland Academy of Music, a private and small group lessons studio in a retail space in downtown Zeeland, MI, where he has lived and taught nearly his entire life.