Jonathan Schranz
Jonathan Schranz is a conductor based in London. He studied choral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded a Distinction along with numerous prizes. Prior to this he read music at Churchill College, Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in 2015.
Jonathan is a versatile musician familiar with a broad range of approaches to music-making. With a background in jazz trumpet playing, music education and outreach work, solo singing and a decade of professional church music experience, Jonathan enjoys a diverse career which takes him from parish churches to high security prisons on a regular basis. He is Director of Music for the Archdiocese of Southwark and at its mother church of St George’s Cathedral, where he oversees the Cathedral Music Department and its extensive choral programme for children aged 0-18 along with the choral and organ scholars and eight professional lay clerks. Jonathan is also director of the Southwark Singing Programme, a diocesan music education programme which facilitates whole-class singing in schools across the archdiocese each week. In recent years the cathedral choirs have made two commercial CD recordings and given regular BBC broadcast performances. Jonathan also served as musical director to the University of Greenwich for three years, conducting the flagship 80-strong chorus in choral-orchestral performances, and for ten years was a Section Leader and Assistant Conductor for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.
A firm believer in the transformative social impact of choral music, Jonathan is a co-founder and trustee of the charity Sing Inside, which delivers singing workshops in prisons across the country. His master’s thesis, exploring the benefits of choral music within a prison chaplaincy, has been presented at the Universities of Leicester and Oxford. Jonathan is increasingly in demand in the UK and Europe as a workshop leader, vocal coach, consultant and external advisor for all things church music, with a specialism in Gregorian Chant and Choral Leadership. Jonathan is a tutor for the Royal School of Church Music and the Association of British Choral Directors and was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2023.
