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Jeff Anvinson has been active as a performer, educator, arranger, conductor, music transcriber, writer, music critic, arranger, composer, recording artist and producer (both sides of the microphone), video producer, music publisher, and business owner for more than forty-four years. He has performed classical, jazz, pop, rock, blues, musical theater, country, and bluegrass on radio, television, and other venues as a soloist and in numerous ensembles in the United States, China, and Canada.

He has taught more than 26,000 individual music lessons (guitar, piano, ukulele, music theory, and more) and 160 sections of courses on a variety of guitar, piano, and music theory subjects in a wide variety of settings, including universities, commercial businesses, private practice, on the internet, and public schools. He has published twenty reviews and articles and has recorded numerous times. After a childhood in rural Minnesota, he studied music at several universities, including the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the University of North Dakota, and Montana State University, eventually earning two degrees in music and a certificate in management and supervision. He studied orchestration with Pulitzer prize winning composer Dominic Argento, and performed in a master class lead by multiple Grammy award winner Sharon Isbin.

He owns and operates JLA Music, a company that provides a wide variety of music services, including lessons in guitar, piano, ukulele, music theory, arranging, composition, music technology, and other music subjects. Casarroti Klavier Publisher, where he is a business partner and music technologist, publishes music on the SuperScore app for iPad. His website, www.emahle.com, distributes and promotes the guitar music of Brazilian composer Ernst Mahle.

He started playing piano when he was six years old and guitar when he was fourteen. He learned many other instruments as well, including voice, though he now focuses on guitar, piano, and ukulele.