Dr. Jonathan Oldengarm, Director of Music

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Jonathan holds degrees in organ and harpsichord performance from Wilfrid Laurier (BMus, 1998) and McGill Universities (MMus, 2000; DMus, 2005), and also studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany from 2003-2005. His principal teachers include Douglas Haas, Barrie Cabena, Colin Tilney, Hank Knox, John Grew and Ludger Lohmann. In 1996, at age 21, he became one of the youngest candidates ever to earn the Fellowship diploma of the Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO), winning the Porter and Peaker prizes.

He is a laureate of the RCCO National Competition, as well as the International Organ Competitions of Calgary and Dublin. He has held major scholarships from the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Recent performance highlights include the Crystal Cathedral's Hour of Power broadcast; St. Thomas Church, New York; the Houston Bach Society's Organ Vespers; the Winnipeg Symphony; Himmerod Abbey, Germany; the Christuskirche, Mannheim, Germany; the Grote Kerk, Vlissingen, the Netherlands; St. James Cathedral, Toronto; and the 2005 RCCO National Convention.