Jonathan Barnhart , Music Director

          Jonathan Barnhart, Music Director and Conductor of the Dedham Choral Society, received the M.Mus. degree from New England Conservatory of Music and B.A. with honors from Dickinson College. He has studied choral conducting with Lorna Cooke deVaron, organ with James David Christie, and voice with Susan Clickner and Grace Hunter. As a vocal soloist he has appeared with numerous organizations including Alea III, Boston Camerata, Cantata Singers, Ensemble Abendmusik, Musica Viva, and the Handel and Haydn Society, in repertory ranging from Monteverdi to Schoenberg, performing under the baton of such internationally renowned conductors as Christopher Hogwood, Roger Norrington and Andrew Parrott.

Mr. Barnhart is Organist and Choir Director of Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Chestnut Hill, and of First Parish, Unitarian-Universalist in Harvard Square, Cambridge, and a member of the vocal faculties of New England Conservatory Extension Division and Boston College. Professional affiliations include the American Guild of Organists, the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the American Guild of Musical Artists, for which he has served on both regional and national boards.

Mr. Barnhart's editions of choral and organ music by Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Thompson are published by ECS Publishing, Galaxy Music, and Thorpe Music. In 1997, Thorpe Music will release his Festival Choruses of J. S. Bach series and Hail Thee, O Music by Aleksandr Skryabin. He has written articles for The American Organist, and his editions have been favorably reviewed in numerous publications, including The Choral Journal, The American Organist and Diapason.

In 1995 Mr. Barnhart was appointed as Music Director and Conductor of the Dedham Choral Society, after having served as Interim Conductor for the preparation of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, the performance of which earned the chorus critical acclaim.