JON ARTERTON moved to the St. Petersburg area
in January 2016. He began his musical journey as a
choirboy at Washington DC's National Cathedral.
He holds a Master's Degree in Choral Conducting
from The New England Conservatory of Music in
Boston and was twice a Vocal Fellow at the
Tanglewood Music Festival. He also holds an MFA
in Acting from Smith College and has performed in
hundreds of plays and musicals, including The Utter
Glory of Morrissey Hall on Broadway. He was the
founder and musical arranger of The Flirtations, the
proudly gay a cappella singing group which
performed in venues around the world including
Carnegie Hall, and which was seen in the film
Philadelphia and on HBO, Good Morning America
and MTV. In 2002 he founded The Outer Cape
Chorale, a community chorus based in
Provincetown, Massachusetts. By the time he left
the Cape the chorus had grown to 150 voices and
had performed such works as Requiems by
Brahms, Mozart, Cherubini and Fauré, several
Bach cantatas, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bernstein’s
Chichester Psalms and Mass, Haydn’s Creation
and Mass in the Time of War, Karl Jenkins’ The
Armed Man; as well as concerts of music by
Gershwin, Gilbert & Sullivan, Sondheim, the
Beatles, and more. He and his husband James
Mack sing together frequently and have released a
CD entitled “Legally Married… and the Sky Didn’t
Fall!”. In keeping with his philosophy that singing is
good for one’s health and good for the world, Jon
gives popular vocal workshops called “Singing with
Courage.” He serves as the Director of Music at the
Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg and
has three times prepared the chorus for the Florida
Orchestra’s annual Sing Out Tampa Bay concerts.