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Co-Founder, Artistic Director & Principal Conductor

Jonathan Griffith

The co-founder of Distinguished Concerts International New York, Jonathan Griffith is an active conductor, educator, lecturer, and consultant. His many conducting credits include the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City; Manhattan Philharmonic and New England Symphonic Ensemble, both in performances at Carnegie Hall; The European Symphony Orchestra, Spain; Bohuslava Martinů Philharmonia and Philharmonia Chorus, Virtuosi Pregensis Chamber Orchestra, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, and Dvořák Chamber Orchestra, Czech Republic; Bialystok State Philharmonic, Poland; and regional orchestras and choruses in the United States.

Maestro Griffith made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 1989. His combined 50-plus conducting appearances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center span the major works of the classical repertoire and include the U.S. premieres of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins' Stabat Mater and Te Deum, Russian composer Sergei Taneyev's Upon Reading a Psalm, Czech composer Miloš Bok's Missa Solemnis, Luigi Boccherini's Villancicos, and Eugène Goossens' reorchestration of Handel's Messiah; as well as numerous world premieres, including Eric Funk's Pamelia, Seymour Bernstein's Song of Nature, and Robert Convery's The Unknown Region and I Have a Dream.

Most recently, in the summer of 2009, Maestro Griffith led his vocal ensemble, the Jonathan Griffith Singers, to the People's Republic of China, conducting two China Premieres of Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: Music for Peace performed by the celebrated Xin Ya Kong Qi Symphony Orchestra at Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall and Shanghai's Oriental Arts Center. These highly anticipated concert events were recognized internationally, as they commemorated the 30th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and China. In summer 2011, Griffith again will lead the Singers on a tour to Uruguay and Argentina in performances of Mozart's Requiem and other works.

 He received his DMA in conducting from the Conservatory of Music/University of Missouri-Kansas City, Masters in Music Education from Wichita State University, and Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Kansas.

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