Jon Kalbfleisch

is Music Director and Conductor of the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2007, he was guest conductor for the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra Pops at the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival.  In 2006, Jon conducted the final concert of the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute Orchestra at Quartz Mountain. Previously, he conducted the finals of the Louise D. McMahon International Piano Competition held at Cameron University. A native Lawtonian and graduate of Cameron University (BA in Piano Performance), Jon was twice a piano soloist with this orchestra before attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  While in Dallas as a student of Anshel Brusilow, Jon was Assistant Conductor of the SMU Symphony and Music Director of the Perspective Chamber Ensemble, pianist for the Dallas Ballet, and accompanist for the Dallas Opera.  While receiving his Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting at SMU, Jon was a finalist in a number of conducting competitions. 

Since relocating to the Washington DC area, Jon has been an eighteen-time nominee and four-time recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical Direction. As resident music director at Signature Theatre, he has conducted over 1000 performances of some thirty musicals including Sweeney Todd, Follies, A Little Night Music and 110 in the Shade.  Nationally, Kalbfleisch was Associate Conductor for the touring company of Les Miserables, which included a stop on Broadway.  He was Music Director for Putting it Together at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.  On television, Jon has appeared conducting for Alan Jackson on Good Morning America.

In Washington, Mr. Kalbfleisch was recently music director for the Library of Congress 50th Anniversary Concert of West Side Story, as well as music director and co-conductor for Gilbert Mead: A Celebration at the Kennedy Center. He is associate conductor for The Washington Ballet’s Nutcracker, Music Director at Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, and has played and/ or conducted at Wolf Trap (with the National Symphony Orchestra), Strathmore Hall (with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) The National Theatre, The Warner Theatre, The White House, The Smithsonian Institute, The National Building Museum, and The US Supreme Court.  He has worked with artists including Kathy Bates, Carol Burnett, Pat Carroll, Dixie Carter, Sutton Foster, Lynn Harrell, George Hearn, Bronson Pinchot, John Raitt, Chita Rivera, Lea Solonga, and Frederica von Stade.

 

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