Nicholas Jeffery is a violist and teacher in Kalamazoo MI. He holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Catherine Carroll and Masao Kawasaki, and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where his main teacher was Sally Chisholm. As a performer, Dr. Jeffery has been a member of the Madison Symphony orchestra and served as Principal Viola of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. An active chamber musician, Dr. Jeffery helped found the Ursa Ensemble, a mixed chamber ensemble in Chicago, IL, and he has been invited to appear as a guest artist with the Willy Street Chamber Players and the Heart Strings Ensemble in Madison, WI.

Dr. Jeffery is strongly committed to teaching and maintains a full studio of private students at the Crescendo Academy of Music. As a member of the Hunt String Quartet at the University of Wisconsin, he visited area elementary schools to present musical lessons and give performances in the classroom. He currently serves as assistant principal of the Kalamazoo Symphony where he also performs as a member of the Burdick–Thorne String Quartet, and he is excited to join the South Bend Symphony as its new principal violist starting in Fall of 2023.