Jonathan F. Babbitt
Music Director

Appointed Music Director in 1993, Jonathan F. Babbitt is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Music, where he was Director of the Yale Freshman Chorus and Associate Director of the Yale Glee Club under the tutelage of Fenno Heath. Active as a clinician, conductor, adjudicator and composer, Babbitt has appeared across the United States, Canada and Europe with choral groups performing repertoire from the Renaissance to the contemporary. His compositions have premiered at the prestigious International Contemporary Music Festival in Bonn, Germany, and at Connecticut and Rhode Island Music Educator's Association events here in the United States.

Babbitt currently also serves as Music Director of the Litchfield County Choral Union and as Organist and Choirmaster at the Church of S. John the Evangelist on the Point in Newport.

In addition to his work as a choral conductor, Babbitt is also an accomplished organist and has performed recitals throughout New England and Europe. In addition he is active in music education at the elementary, secondary and college levels. He has been widely published in music journals and maintains a private studio on Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island.