Jeff Crabtree is a speaker, musician, author, filmmaker, songwriter, music producer and the Principal of the CCC School of Creative Arts.
. His keyboard playing can be heard on 60 commercially released recordings and over 30 pieces of music for Television and Corporate Video. He has credits as producer or co-producer on 23 albums and 25 other commercial projects including the last five “Prayerworks” albums released by Christian City Church internationally since 1998. Recently he co-produced his first movie, made for DVD entitled “One Day” – one hour of beautiful images filmed on location in NSW and set to the music of SANTE, his latest musical project. He is an accomplished piano player and keyboardist, has played in over 15 bands and is comfortable in all contemporary styles of music.
The fifth Prayerworks recording, “True” is currently the subject of postgraduate academic research that Jeff is conducting through Macquarie University in Sydney. He occasionally moonlights as a blues performer and has released two live recordings of original Rhythm and Blues songs under the working name of his band: Doctor Bob and the Amazing Disciples of Groove. As a songwriter, Jeff has had 86 songs recorded on 26 commercially released recordings to date and has been awarded 4 international awards for songwriting. His skills as a keyboard player and music producer was be teamed with the innovative leadership of Music Director Ryan Smith on the CCC worship album Presence, which was recorded live in Sydney on May 29th 2005.
Jeff is an ordained Minister of Creative Arts and is in demand as a speaker at contemporary churches and worship and creative arts seminars in Australia and overseas. He is a regular guest speaker at the Hillsong, House2House, Worship Summit and Rise conferences in Australia, the Noise and Magnify worship conferences in New Zealand, and the Purpose Driven Worship Conference at Saddleback Church in the USA amongst others. He has appeared frequently as a guest artist at the Parachute Extreme Festival in New Zealand, at the Black Stump Music and Arts Festival on and off for the last 10 years, and has toured internationally to New Zealand, the USA, the UK, Singapore, Germany, Holland, Russia, Central and South America, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. He is an annual guest lecturer in the Bachelor of Arts (Music) program at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is an author of two books – one out of print, and an electronic book of proverbs; currently in production. Since 1996 He has written or co written the scripts for 6 theatrical productions that have played before audiences that have collectively exceeded 30,000 people.
He is the Principal of the Christian City Church School of Creative Arts located in a 16 million dollar complex on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. In that position, (which he has fulfilled for 13 years) he is responsible for the management and direction of around 250 students and over 45 staff and for the implementation of some of the most innovative creative arts training programs in Australia. The School is tasked with raising up young creative artists for Christian service and is not only equipped with a 32 track digital recording facility and other educational resources but also has access to the considerable technical resources including a broadcast quality television facility, several PA systems and professional quality musical equipment. SCA offers courses in Contemporary Musicianship and Worship Leading, Contemporary Vocals and Worship Leading, Songwriting, Acting and Theatre Craft, Dance, Visual Arts and Film and Television. During the course of the year 2000 and early 2001, He designed and wrote the unique courses that lead to the award of the qualification offered by The School of Creative Arts. This qualification was accredited in the year 2001. He also oversaw the process of accreditation by the NSW Government of the college as a Registered Training Organization in the VET sector.
(Saturday 2:00pm-3:15pm)
The world is changing so fast that we are not able to keep up with it. 10 years ago there was no myspace but now it is the world’s 11th largest country.
Very little of our past experience has prepared us to be able to take hold of the future. Jeff will unpack the critical importance of the artistic community, musicians/songwriters and creative thinkers for the 21st Century church.
(Saturday 3:00pm-4:15pm)
Being Creative: there are a lot of persistent myths about how creativity works and how we can be “more creative”. The truth is we are creative because we are made in the image of God. We simply need to learn how to access the gift that God has given us, and recognize what things either enable us or block us. Learn more about your creativity...
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