Jonathon Hampton performs sacred and secular music as an alto, tenor, and baritone, specializing in early classical, spirituals, jazz, and contemporary repertoire, including songwriting and arranging. His solo album, Negro Spirituals: Songs of Trial and Triumph complements two recordings as featured soloist with Pacific Boychoir: That Promised Land and Show Me the Way. He has recently recorded commercial albums with Cappella SF and American Bach Soloists, and appears on earlier recordings with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Schola Cantorum San Francisco, New York Film Chorale, Cornell University Glee Club, and The American Boychoir. Hampton performs regularly with American Bach Soloists, Cappella SF, and San Francisco Symphony Chorus in addition to singing often with the choirs of Church of the Advent and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA, and the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, CA.
Hampton directs ensembles for East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, and was recently a conductor for the early music chamber chorus, Tactus SF, San Francisco Youth Chorus, and San Francisco Early Music Society's summer Music Discovery Workshop and Youth Collegium. He was previously a director of the GRAMMY-winning Pacific Boychoir, choristers at Grace Church in Newark, NJ, and founded two choruses in affiliation with his alma mater, Cornell University where he graduated in 2004. Hampton has been guest conductor of several ensembles across the country and also spent five years with Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, coordinating international music education programs and media, work he continues today as an arts 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
baritone
tenor
alto
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
American Bach Soloists – Alto, Tenor
San Francisco Symphony Chorus – Tenor
Schola Adventus – Tenor, Alto, Cantor
Grace Cathedral – Alto Sub
recent
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
