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Jonathan Embry, D. Mus., is Director of Music and Organist at the Cathedral of Saint Helena, Montana and Adjunct Professor of Sacred Music at Carroll College. Jonathan earned his doctorate in the studio of Hans-Ola Ericsson at McGill University. He researched North German sacred organ and choral music in Germany and played historic organs in Lübeck and Hamburg. He received a Master of Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame, studying with Craig Cramer; and a Bachelor of Music from Syracuse University, studying with Kola Owolabi (organ) and Andrew Waggoner (composition).
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Dr. Embry has given recitals in the U.S. and Canada including three solo recitals in the Saint Joseph Oratory in Montreal. He toured extensively in Russia, playing concerts in ten cities during two tours. Jonathan was the international guest artist at the Organ Festival in Kondopoga, Russia (2017). The Saratov Oblast Government awarded Jonathan a citation of gratitude for his Saratov Conservatory concert of popular movie theme music for orphaned, disadvantaged, and disabled children. Jonathan completed a concert tour in Lithuania and performed as a headliner at the Kaliningrad "Territory of the World, the Territory of Music" memorial week for the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the Königsberg Cathedral (2019). Jonathan performed in the Summer Organ Series at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. as well as the inaugural recital for the restoration of the organ at St. Alphonsus in Seattle, Washington.
Jonathan has received composition commissions in four countries. In Paradisum op.5 was composed for the Sacred Music Festival in Renfrew, Ontario. His Passacaglia op.4 received honorable mention in the chamber music division of the National American Prize competition and praised as "A Major addition to the organ repertoire which requires a masterful, mature, and sensitive musician to perform it with clarity and emotional intent."- Dr. Slawomir Dobrzanski, Judge of the American Prize. Jonathan premiered his Four Rhapsodies in Canada, Kaliningrad, and New York. Jonathan composed a choral piece using text from the Diary of St. Faustina for the Shrine of St. Martin of Tours in Louisville and a piece for piano trio performed in fundraising concerts for a Taiwanese Catholic organization in Taipei.
Jonathan has presented lecture/recitals/master classes on Sacred Music and composing for the organ at conferences, and at Canadian and American universities. He recently led a conference on Sacred music for the Missoula, Montana deanery. Jonathan grew up on a lobstering island in Maine, takes part in cross-country bike racing, and enjoys riding technical trails on his mountain bike.
Jonathan has received composition commissions in four countries. In Paradisum op.5 was composed for the Sacred Music Festival in Renfrew, Ontario. His Passacaglia op.4 received honorable mention in the chamber music division of the National American Prize competition and praised as "A Major addition to the organ repertoire which requires a masterful, mature, and sensitive musician to perform it with clarity and emotional intent."- Dr. Slawomir Dobrzanski, Judge of the American Prize. Jonathan premiered his Four Rhapsodies in Canada, Kaliningrad, and New York. Jonathan composed a choral piece using text from the Diary of St. Faustina for the Shrine of St. Martin of Tours in Louisville and a piece for piano trio performed in fundraising concerts for a Taiwanese Catholic organization in Taipei.
Jonathan has presented lecture/recitals/master classes on Sacred Music and composing for the organ at conferences, and at Canadian and American universities. He recently led a conference on Sacred music for the Missoula, Montana deanery. Jonathan grew up on a lobstering island in Maine, takes part in cross-country bike racing, and enjoys riding technical trails on his mountain bike.