Jonathan Dagenais holds a Master’s degree in Conducting from McGill University and a Bachelor’s degree in Composition from the Université de Montréal.

Renowned conductor, composer and educator, Jonathan Dagenais is a course lecturer at McGill University (Schulich School of Music) where he teaches conducting and has conducted the McGill Wind Orchestra. He’s also a composition teacher at Université de Sherbrooke. In addition to his career in teaching, Mr. Dagenais also pursues a career as a composer and arranger for wind orchestras. His works, which have been performed repeatedly by numerous ensembles, also appear on several professional recordings. His compositions are included in many North American concert band music festival syllabuses and are currently published worldwide by Alfred Music, TRN Music Publisher Inc., Hafabra Music and Eighth Note Publications.

Jonathan Dagenais is also a sought after conductor. He is the conductor and artistic director of the Orchestre à Vents Non Identifié (OVNI), a Montreal wind orchestra he co-founded in 2005. OVNI is an ensemble dedicated to collaborative and active listening, tone quality, refined interpretation as well as humor. Jonathan Dagenais is also the conductor Orchestre de jeux vidéo - OJV (Montreal Video Game Orchestra), an ensemble dedicated to video game soundtracks. A longtime fan of video games and their music, this was a natural marriage of two of his passions. Most recently in 2019, he was appointed principal conductor of the Ottawa Pops Orchestra (OPO). From 2012 to 2022, he was the conductor of the Cercle Philharmonique de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Mr. Dagenais has been invited to adjudicate and/or give clinics at more than 25 North American music competitions and festivals. In 2017, he became the artistic director of Musicfest Quebec. Jonathan Dagenais is regularly hired as an orchestra, band and chamber music conductor in Canadian summer music camps. He has been a guest conductor for many North American honor bands including The National Youth Band of Canada (NYB) in 2013, the most prestigious honor band in the country. Well known educator and public speaker, he is a Yamaha Canada Master Artist Educator, a guest conductor and clinician for Twigg Musique and the Fédération des Harmonies and Quebec Symphony Orchestras (FHOSQ) in addition of being the artistic director of MusicFest Québec.

Jonathan Dagenais official web site: http://www.jonathandagenais.com

Updated on 23 January 2024