Jeffrey Chilton is a certified Music Education Teacher and holds a B.M. in Music Education with a Jazz Concentration from the Ithaca College School of Music in NY. There he graduated Magnum Cum Lauda and took numerous courses in brass pedagogy and brass instruments including trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, baritone, tuba, and french horn as well as courses in improvisation, arranging, and jazz/classical music theory. He has been praised for his creativity in curriculum design at Owego Apalachin High School, South Hill Elementary School as well as the Exploration Summer Programs at Wellesley College where he designed and taught a Music Production course and a Non-traditional percussion course.

For the last 10 years Chilton has spent his career in Portland, OR working with a trombone studio of 15-20 students. He coaches jazz sectionals at Beaumont Middle School as part of the award winning Jazz Ambassadors Program. His bones have been awarded best big band section awards multiple times. Chilton is also an artist in residence at the Cleveland High School where his students have won 1st place in the State Wind Ensemble competition. Throughout his Portland tenure Chilton's private students have played first chair in All State jazz, symphonic band, and WIBIC, won the State Jazz Ensemble Competition 3 times, placed 1st and 2nd in State Wind Ensemble Competition, been granted national soloist awards, received accolades from Downbeat Jazz Magazine, ranked first and second in the Oregon Solo/Ensemble Competition, have received thousands of dollars in music scholarships to multiple colleges (Puget Sound, U of O, Berkeley, Western Washington) and performed in a variety of Portland musical extracurriculars including PYO, PYJO, AJAM, Brass Cats, and others.