Jared Johnson

Jared Johnson is the Canon Director of Music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. A native of Ohio, he is a graduate of Oberlin College and Yale University. Prior to his appointment in San Francisco, he was Director of Music at Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, SC, where he founded both a boys’ choir and a girls’ choir, and he taught on the music faculty of the University of South Carolina. A frequent guest conductor, he recently served as music director for the Saint Thomas Girl Chorister Course, and the Royal School of Church Music Course at Duke University. As an organ recitalist he has appeared in major venues throughout North America, Great Britain, and Australia, and his recordings appear on the Pro Organo and JAV labels. He previously served on the staffs of Trinity Church, Boston; Memorial Church at Harvard; and Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, CT. Dr. Johnson is a member of the boards of the Association of Anglican Musicians, and of the Royal School of Church Music in America.