I am currently pursuing a PhD at the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK. A brief abstract/description of my PhD can be found on the Academy's website - the link provided below. I am extremely thankful to Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland for providing invaluable materials regarding René Leibowitz's life and works which are currently one of my main preoccupations in my PhD journey. I am currently in the process of studying some of Leibowitz's music and shall, with Paul Sacher Stiftung's permission, release a recording of some of his piano works!

 

https://www.ram.ac.uk/research/projects/engagement-enragement-enlargement

 

This is what a current biography of mine reads:

 

Jeffery Macsim is a pianist based in London, United Kingdom. Originally from Botoșani, he studied in Romania with Prof. Daniel Goiți and has completed his BMus and MMus studies at the Academy under Professor Christopher Elton. Jeffery is a collaborative musician – as well as being an avid chamber musician, he frequently works with poets from Romania. Projects include reciter-and-piano music based on poems by Alberto Păduraru (Cartea cu Moace, ed. Dezarticulat, 2023.) He also gives masterclasses to young children – for example, in Morocco, as part of his collaboration with Musicalia Maroc.

 

He gives concerts throughout Europe and Morocco and has performed in venues such as the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech. In his spare time, Jeff translates poetry from and into Romanian and English, badly.