Da Capo Institute Founder & Tenor Jeff PrillamanMusician, Businessman, and Social Entrepreneur Jeff Prillaman is the founder and executive director of the Da Capo Institute in Richmond, Va., an organization dedicated to building communities of musicians through passion, discipline and application. He is also an IT Director for Capital One.
Biography
Lyric Tenor, Jeff Prillaman has enjoyed a variety of solo engagements in both national and international venues and is the co founder of the Da Capo Institute in Richmond, VA.
While completing his Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School in New York City, he enjoyed a Carnegie Hall debut in Donizetti's Caterina Cornaro with the Opera Orchestra of New York. His wide ranging repertoire has provided performances venues ranging from Dvorak Hall in Prague, Czech Republic to recitals in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
Equally at home on the opera stage and the concert stage, he has a special affinity for art song and is excited by the unique communication medium provided by the intimate concert events generally associated with song and lecture recitals. Mr Prillaman was recently awarded honorable mention in the collaborative piano division of the International Garrison Piano Competition sponsored by the American Liszt Society.
He "blogs" regularly about his life experiences and performances at Consistently Inconsistent.
As a recording artist, Mr Prillaman is the featured tenor on Elysium records' "Haydn in Hellenic Antiquity" released 1995 and was the tenor soloist in '94 on Chesky records' "Like as a Hart" with Joseph Flummerfelt and the Westminster Choir.
Ministry/Teaching
Mr Prillaman is an accomplished conductor and experienced Minister of Music with a passion for arts in the local church and surrounding community. He holds a a Bachelors Degree from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ where he studied under Joseph Flummerfelt, and pursued specialized studies in group vocal technique under the esteemed Frauke Haasemann. His dedication to working with young singers and amateurs in churches, public schools and at the collegiate level has provided teaching opportunities from Virginia to Connecticut and is the foundation of his passion for the Da Capo Institute. His most recent university teaching position was on the teaching faculty at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Mr Prillaman is an accomplished conductor with a passion for ministry through music in the local church and surrounding community. He has served as the Minister of Music for churches in both New Jersey and Virginia and was most recently on the staff at Branch's Baptist Church in Richmond, VA from 2000-2005. He holds a Bachelors Degree, summa cum laude from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.
Currently, Mr. Prillaman is a member of Huguenot Road Baptist Church where he is an active member of the music ministry and teaches an adult Life Community class called the Open Door.
Businessman
As a businessman, strategist and technologist, Mr Prillaman has worked for corporations in New Jersey and Virginia and recently completed an executive certificate in management from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Currently, he serves Capital One as the IT Director responsible for HR technology. His career there has included award winning workplace innovation programs such as the “Future of Work”, as well as a world class/scale VOIP deployment branded My Phone My Way. He has been recognized as a Circle of Excellence award winner in the top 1% of Capital One's workforce.
Coach/Community
In addition to his active community life in the Midlothian arts world via Da Capo and Huguenot Road, Jeff has been involved with the Robious Athletic Association (coaching Tball, and singing for games) and is a champion of Upward Basketball. For Upward, He has coached in all three age divisions of the HRBC/Bon Air league and enjoys the challenge of working with these youngsters to be active and competitive within a loving, and ministry driven context. Every child is indeed a winner,whether they sing/play with Da Capo Institute or play basketball, or baseball. Even if they teams don't always win, the students do. It is matter of "perspective".
