CONCERTS
Jonathon Hampton vocalist | conductor | consultant
Jonathon Hampton is an alto, tenor and baritone specializing in early classical, spirituals, jazz, and contemporary music, including songwriting. His solo album, Negro Spirituals: Songs of Trial and Triumph complements choral recordings as feature soloist with the GRAMMY-winning Pacific Boychoir, and projects with Cappella SF, American Bach Soloists, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Schola Cantorum San Francisco, New York Film Chorale, Cornell University Glee Club and The American Boychoir. Based in Washington, DC, he directs the primary school chorus and teaches music lessons at Washington International School. Hampton sings regularly for the Cathedral Choral Society, Washington Master Chorale,St. John Paul II National Shrine and Washington National Cathedral. Recently in San Francisco, California, he sang regularly with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Cappella SF, American Bach Soloists, and at Church of the Advent and Grace Cathedral. He's been director of the Renaissance chamber chorus Tactus SF, and conducted ensembles for East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Youth Chorus, and the Music Discovery Workshop & Youth Collegium of San Francisco Early Music Society. He has performed widely in the New York area, where he was also Director of Choristers at Grace Church in Newark, NJ and founded a women’s chorus of alumna of his alma mater, Cornell University. He worked several years for Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute and continues as an arts media consultant.
Ave Maria by Camille Saint-Saëns
with Paul Ellison, organ
Lord God of Abraham (Elijah)
by Mendelssohn
Ev'ry Valley (Messiah)
by Handel
Sapphische Ode by Johannes Brahms
with Jeffrey Parola, organ
Solo
alto
baritone
tenor
Neither from Heaven Nor Earth with Cappella SF; Jewish Music of the Baroque with Marin Baroque Choir & Chamber Orchestra; Burgundian Renaissance, also Medieval and Baroque Treasury, and A Tudor Christmas with Early Music New York
Hymnfest with the Ojai Music Festival Singers, Purcell's The Fairy Queen with Big Apple Baroque, Siegel's Brother Brother (Wilbur Wright), Diebes's WOW (Fab)
Vaughan Williams' Fantasy on a Christmas Carol with California Symphony; Mozart's Requiem in D Minor with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Durflé's Requiem with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall's Link Up: The Orchestra Rocks with the Orchestra of St. Luke's
Choirs
current
Cathedral Choral Society – Tenor, Bass
Washington Master Chorale – Baritone
St. John Paul II National Shrine – Tenor
Washington National Cathedral – ATB Sub
St. Charles Catholic – Tenor Sub
Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle –
Tenor, Bass, Cantor Sub
recent
St. John's Episcopal – Alto Sub
St. Luke's at St. Ignatius – Tenor Sub
Bradley Hills Presbyterian – Alto Sub
Christ Church Georgetown – Tenor Sub
American Bach Soloists – Alto, Tenor
San Francisco Symphony Chorus – Tenor
Schola Adventus – Tenor, Alto, Cantor
Grace Cathedral – Alto Sub
Cappella SF – Tenor, Alto
Cathedral of Christ the Light – Tenor, Alto, Cantor
Marin Baroque – Tenor, Alto
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption – Alto, Tenor Sub
St. Mark's Episcopal, Berkeley – Tenor Sub
Ojai Music Festival Singers – Bari
Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian – Tenor Sub
Schola Cantorum San Francisco – Alto
Pacific Collegium – Alto, Tenor
Artists Vocal Ensemble – Tenor
Lakeshore Ave Baptist – Alto, Tenor, Bass
San Francisco Bach Choir – Tenor
Grace Church in Newark – Alto, Tenor, Bass, Cantor
Early Music New York – Alto
Conflitti di Voci – Bari
New York Film Chorale - Bass
Manhattan Concert Chorale – Bari
St. Mary the Virgin, Times Sq. – Alto, Tenor, Bass
Church of the Epiphany – Tenor, Bass Sub
Marble Collegiate – Tenor Sub
Church of the Resurrection – Tenor
St. Thomas 5th Ave – Alto Sub
Broadway United – Alto, Tenor Sub
St. John the Divine – Alto, Tenor, Bass, Cantor
Trinity, Wall Street – Tenor
Holy Trinity Catholic – Alto, Tenor, Bass
Buttress – Precentor
Strike the Viol by Henry Purcell
with Geoffrey Ullerich, piano
