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Jonathan Leonard Organ Concert – New Date!

February 23 @ 4:00 pm

The next concert of the 2024-2025 Season of the Music at Grace Concert Series will be performed by Jonathan Leonard, our Director of Music, on Sunday, February 23 at 4 p.m. This concert is open to all and is free of charge. A free-will offering is accepted to keep the concert series operating.

Jonathan Leonard is from Hagerstown, MD and is a 2001 graduate of South Hagerstown High School. He began organ study in 1999 with C. Randall Williams who was Organist/Choir Director at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. His other teachers have been Mark King (Hagerstown Community College and Shepherd University), Dr. Ann Labounsky and Dr. David Craighead (Duquesne University). He has served as Director of Music at Grace United Methodist Church, Hagerstown, MD, since 2014. In his time at Grace UMC, he has overseen the start of a Choral Scholarship Program, the Music at Grace Concert Series, and the replacement of the pipe organ. Since 2021 he has also been the Director of Traditional Music and Organist for St. John’s Lutheran Church, Hagerstown. Prior to arriving at Grace, he was an accompanist for Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Gainesville, FL and has served at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Funkstown, MD; Emmanuel UMC Hagerstown, MD; St. Paul’s UMC Smithsburg, MD; Grace Anglican Church Sewickley, PA; Organ Scholar at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Hagerstown, MD. He has performed concerts in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida. Since 2018 he has also been a pipe organ technician for Lawless & Associates Pipe Organ Company (Lewis & Hitchcock Pipe Organ Company) in Greencastle, PA and is now their Tonal Director.

You can also visit their website Events | Hagerstown | Grace United Methodist Church – Hagerstown, MD (graceumchag.org) or Facebook page Music at Grace UMC Hagerstown, MD | Hagerstown MD | Facebook to view more information about upcoming events.

All concerts are free to the public. A free-will offering is accepted. Parking is easily accessible and our building is handicap accessible. We hope you can join us!

 

Details

Date:
February 23
Time:
4:00 pm

Venue

Grace United Methodist Church
712 Church St.
Hagerstown, MD United States
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