Jonathan Oldengarm

Montréal-based organist Jonathan Oldengarm is active as a recitalist, teacher, and church musician. His organ and harpsichord repertoire includes works from the earliest sources of keyboard music to the 21st-century avant-garde. He is also a versatile collaborative artist, working with some of Canada‘s leading choirs, orchestras and solo instrumentalists. He has had many years of concert activity with Claudia Tesorino. Dr. Oldengarm holds degrees in organ and harpsichord from Wilfrid Laurier and McGill Universities, and also studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany. He attended master classes with Marie-Claire Alain, Martin Haselböck and many others. He earned his doctorate with a thesis on Sigfrid Karg-Elert‘s transcriptions for organ. He is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and sits on its professional certification committee. He is a member of the Organs Committee of the Québec Religious Heritage Commission (Patrimoine réligieux). Since 2008 he has been Director of Music at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montréal, where the music programme includes a fiftyvoice semi-professional choir, two organ recital series, and several annual choir-orchestral oratorio presentations. Additionally, he teaches liturgical organ playing, accompaniment and improvisation at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University.