We started Hallifax & Jeffrey in 2005 to play the music of Forqueray, the last of the great French violists.  Soon, we added other 18^th-century French composers to our programs.

In 2008 we began to work on English 17^th-century viol music, for division viol and for lyra viol.

In all repertoires we are very happy to play concerts as a duo.  However, when we can, we also love to add other musicians to the group.

Our ever expanding list of collaborators includes Marie Dalby, viol; Josh Lee, viol; John Lenti, theorbo; Jakob Lindberg, theorbo; Gilbert Martinez, harpsichord and organ; Kathy Roberts Perl, harpsichord; Elisabeth Reed, viol; Tobi Szuts, viol.

We are an affiliate of the San Francisco Early Music Society, and we run our own homegrown concert series in the East Bay, Barefoot Chamber Concerts.