Jon Carlson
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Jon O. Carlson, D.M.A. For more than 25 years, Jon O. Carlson has served on the faculty of Jacksonville University, where he is director of choral activities and professor of music. He is also director of music of Southside United Methodist Church. Recent highlights of Dr. Carlson leading the JSO Chorus include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Puccini’s La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Bizet’s Carmen, Haydn’s The Creation, Verdi’s Requiem and Four Sacred Pieces, and Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony. From 1991 through 2001 Dr. Carlson was chair of Jacksonville University’s Division of Music. Under his direction, choral ensembles from Jacksonville University performed for a wide variety of audiences, including the American Choral Directors Association, the Florida Music Educators National Conference and on the USS Forrestal at Mayport Naval Station. In Jacksonville he also served as music director of the St. Johns Art Singers and conducted the Duval County All-Star High School Chorus. Dr. Carlson’s career spans over three decades and ranges geographically from Pennsylvania to Alaska, where he was assistant professor of music at Alaska Methodist University in the 1970s and conducted the Anchorage Community Chorus. He served as director of the Butler Symphony Chorus and the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus. Appointed director of the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus in 2001, Dr. Carlson had prepared the Chorus for performances under previous JSO music directors Roger Nierenberg and Willis Page. He has sung and recorded with choirs directed by Eugene Ormandy (Philadelphia Orchestra), Leonard Bernstein (New York Philharmonic) and Joseph Krips; and studied conducting with Warren Martin, Nicolas Harshanyi, Harold Decker and Helmuth Rilling. Frequently in demand as a clinician and adjudicator, Dr. Carlson has judged for the Florida Vocal Association Regional and State Festivals, American Guild of Organists, Florida Baptist Music Association, Heritage Music Festivals and Events America Music Festivals. A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Dr. Carlson attended Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, and holds the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois.
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