Sarah Jeffrey

Hailed by critics for her “exquisite solo work” (The Globe and Mail), her “luscious tone” (Toronto Star), and sensitive musicianship, Sarah Jeffrey is Principal Oboe of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

GRAMMY® Award nominee and JUNO Award winner, Jeffrey is well known for her recording of the Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto with the TSO, conducted by Maestro Peter Oundjian.

A regular soloist with the TSO, Jeffrey has also appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras across Canada, performing works by Bach, Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Strauss, Marcello, Haydn, and Mozetich, among others. She is also an active recitalist and chamber musician.

Jeffrey is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council’s Chalmers Award for Creativity and Excellence in the Arts and teaches Oboe at Canada’s finest music schools. A passionate and devoted teacher, Jeffrey is on faculty at The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory and the University of Toronto, and performs and teaches in the summer at various music festivals across Canada, most notably at the Toronto Summer Music Festival and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. She can be heard on CBC Radio and Classical 96.3, both as a performer and discussing the finer points of the oboe as a guest on several Podcasts.

Jeffrey shares her life with her husband, TSO horn Gabriel Radford, their two children, Evelyn and Aidan, and Dave the goldendoodle. In her spare time, Jeffrey enjoys running, hiking, travelling, cooking, propagating plants, swimming in cold lakes, puzzles, knitting, crosswords, and, of course, the art of reedmaking.