Jonathon Hampton is a unique and versatile choral conductor with 20 years of experience, specializing in early classical music, spirituals, and contemporary, popular repertoire. He has created new youth choruses for American Youth Chorus and Washington International School in DC; in Northern California at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond's King Elementary and Caliber Beta Academy, and San Francisco Early Music Society's Music Discovery Workshop and Youth Collegium; also at Grace Church in Newark (NJ), at his alma mater Cornell University, and in New York launching the Cornell Alumni Singers.

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Having spent his youth in The American Boychoir, Hampton became Associate Director of Music and Outreach for another rare choir school, the Grammy-winning Pacific Boychoir Academy. Over 14 years, he taught all ages, recorded several albums, conducted tours and orchestral collaborations, trained day-school grades 4-8, and the elite, high school a cappella group, Continuum.

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Hampton has also been Artistic Director of the adult Renaissance ensemble, TactusSF, and Associate Director of San Francisco Youth Chorus, both in California. There he has been guest conductor of Piedmont East Bay Children's Chorus, Cantare’s Nova Choir, the Cathedral of Christ the Light, Lafayette Christian Church, and Enriching Lives Through Music. In New York he has guest conducted the Cornell University World Music Choir and at Trinity Wall Street and Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church; also in New Jersey at Trinity Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and Trinity and St. Philip's Cathedral.