Jon Arterton

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JON ARTERTON began his musical journey as a choirboy at Washington's National Cathedral. He was twice a Tanglewood Vocal Fellow at the Berkshire Music Festival, and holds a Master's Degree in Choral Conducting from The New England Conservatory of Music. He also holds an MFA in Acting from Smith College, and has performed in hundreds of plays and musicals, including one night on Broadway in The Utter Glory of Morissey Hall. He was the founder and musical arranger of The Flirtations, the proudly gay a cappella group seen on HBO and in the film Philadelphia. He conducts three choruses in his hometown of Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod. He has conducted Carmina Burana, Requiems by Mozart and Faure, Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man, Haydn's Mass in the Time of War, etc. He also gives periodic Singing Workshops. He performs with a looping device, creating complex arrangements by layering vocals over and over. He and his husband James Mack (legally married in Massachusetts!) have begun touring with their two-person musical about gay marriage in America.