Jonathan Pilkington

Jonathan Pilkington

Jonathan Pilkington, an Atlanta-based tenor and voice teacher, specializes in oratorio and art song. In recent years as an oratorio soloist, he has performed solos in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Verdi’s Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, and Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, among others. As tenor soloist, he sang in the New York premiere of Mendelson's Humboldt Cantata, as well as a performance of Elliott Carter’s The Defense of Corinth with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall. Jonathan was a guest soloist at the 2014 Bassi Brugnatelli International Conducting and Singing Symposium in Robbiate, Italy. Recent recital appearances have included performances at regional colleges, universities, and churches, as well as in Dallas, TX, Kansas City, MO, and northern California, featuring a variety of American, English, French, German, and Italian song repertoire. As a professional chorister, Pilkington has performed many major choral works with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Taylor Festival Choir, and others. Dr. Pilkington has lectured on vocal pedagogy topics at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and for a number of regional choirs. He holds degrees from Shorter College (B.M.), Westminster Choir College (M.M), and University of Georgia (D.M.A.). As a dedicated voice teacher, he has participated in the highly selective NATS Intern Program and competed further training at the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ at Baldwin Wallace University. Pilkington currently teaches at Emory University, United Music Studios, and at his private studios in Atlanta and LaGrange, GA. He is a staff singer at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. As a multi-passionate entrepreneur, he also works as a Travel Advisor. For more information, please visit www.jonathanpilkington.net or www.pilkingtontravels.com. 

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Where did you do your musical training?

BM-Shorter College, MM-Westminster Choir College, DMA-University of GA

When did you first start performing with the TFC?

2018?

What is your all-time favorite choral work?

Verdi Requiem

Where do you live now? And where do you call “home”?

Atlanta

What is your favorite hobby outside of music?

Travel

What is your favorite meal?

Impossible. I love food, especially seafood!