Education
- DMA in organ, Peabody Conservatory of Music
- GPD in organ, Peabody Conservatory of Music
- MMus in piano, Peabody Conservatory of Music
- AD in organ, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
- BMus in piano, Bob Jones University
Biography
Jonathan William Moyer maintains a dynamic career as an organist, pianist, singer, and conductor. He specializes in a vast repertoire from the renaissance to the 21st century, and he has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including such venues as Washington National Cathedral, the Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo, and at the Dvôrák Spring Festival in Prague and Vienna. He is a member of the critically acclaimed early music vocal ensemble Quire Cleveland. (Hear performances by Moyer on the C.B. Fisk Organ, Opus 116, in Oberlin’s Finney Chapel.)
At the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, Moyer oversees a music program consisting of a professional and amateur choir, children’s youth and handbell choirs, one of Cleveland’s largest pipe organs (E.M. Skinner/Aeolian Skinner/Holtkamp), the Newberry baroque organ (Richards Fowkes), and a 47-bell Dutch carillon.
Moyer resides in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his wife, organist Kaori Hongo, and sons Christopher Sho and Samuel Kazu.
Awards and Recognition
In 2008, Moyer performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in four recitals at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, celebrating the centenary of the composer’s birth and the renovation of the cathedral’s organ.
Also that year, he received second prize in the Sixth International Musashino Organ Competition in Tokyo, Japan. In 2005, he was one of four finalists in the St. Albans International Organ Competition.
Professional Affiliations
He has served on the executive committee of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
He has adjudicated for the American Guild of Organists Quimby Young Artist Competition and the National Organ Playing Competition in Fort Wayne, Indiana.