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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 Morrissey Hall. He was the founder and musical arranger of The Flirtations, the proudly gay a cappella group singing in such places as Carnegie Hall and Yankee Stadium, and seen on HBO, Good Morning America, and in the film Philadelphia. In 2002 he founded the 120-voice community chorus based in his hometown of Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Outer Cape Chorale. He has conducted such works as Orffs Carmina Burana, Mozarts Requiem, Bernsteins Chichester Psalms, Haydns Mass in the Time of War, and Karl Jenkins The Armed Man. www.outercapechorale.org He also serves as the Director of Music at The U.U. Meeting House in Provincetown and gives periodic Singing Workshops, frequently on the Big Island of Hawaii. http://www.kalani.com/workshop/http___jonandjames10_com_Vocal_Workshops_php.html He and his husband James Mack have begun touring with their two-person musical about gay marriage in America, called Just Married! (the Musical). www.justmarriedthemusical.com. Jon recently took fifth place in a national online competition to collaborate with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in a performance of "Dona Nobis Pacem", using a digital looping device called the Echoplex. http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/4564 The Outer Cape Chorale recently premiered his new anti-war composition entitled The Old Lie which can be seen at www.TheOldLie.com.
