JAY KERR began his professional musical career at the age of fourteen as a church organist. He held cue cards for televisions’s Captain Kangaroo, produced military and USO shows that toured Southeast Asia during the Vietnam conflict, shared the bill with Bette Midler at New York’s Continental Baths, wrote children’s musicals that played on and off Broadway, taught in a military school, parochial schools, acting schools and universities, and served as the principal of a junior high school.
After years as a vocal instructor working in his own midtown Manhattan studio, he relocated to upstate New York as Artistic Director of Fort Salem Theater, continuing to consult with producers and educators and compose and perform in new projects.
In his new semi-retirement, he is looking forward to working with a few new students in New Jersey’s Hunterdon County.
