Jeffrey McFarland-Johnson has played the cello since 1960. He received his Bachelor’s degree in cello performance from the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific and his M.A. in composition at UCSD, La Jolla. He studied cello with Arto Noras (1966 Tchaikovsky Competition winner) at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. He has recorded and produced five albums including the Bach solo cello suites Nos.1-3 and Gershwin’s An American In Paris. He taught middle school music students for twenty-four years and currently teaches exceptional music students in the Napa Valley. Jeffrey wrote a four-volume series of method books illustrating the harmonic blueprint of string instruments tuned in fourths and fifths.