Jonathan Crutchfield
Jonathan Crutchfield has received degrees from Southern Wesleyan University (BA in piano performance); Florida State University (MM in choral conducting performance); and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (DMA in choral conducting). He has taught on the music faculties at Southern Wesleyan University and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. In 1996 Dr. Crutchfield co-founded the School of Fine Arts (Chattanooga, TN) and directed the program until 2002. Jonathan currently is Minister of Music and Worship at Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC. Dr. Crutchfield has provided piano accompaniment for singers, instrumentalists, and conductors throughout the world. He has accompanied choirs at the regional and national levels of the American Choral Directors Association. He has been heard on the British Broadcasting Corporation as service organist for the International Church Music Festival (Bern, Switzerland). Other organ venues have taken him to Japan, Canada, and the United States. Dr. Crutchfield is a published composer. He has held the position of Dean of the Chapter (Chattanooga, TN) and Board of Governors (Louisville, KY) for the American Guild of Organists. Dr. Crutchfield served the American Choral Directors Association from 2003 to 2005 as chair of the Church Music Repertoire and Standards Committee for the Southern division of the ACDA.
