About me
Jonathan Allentoff is the music director of the Brockport Symphony, Greece Community and Temple Beth El Orchestras, associate conductor and principal arranger of the Brighton Symphony Orchestra, President of the Greece Performing Arts Society (GPAS), director of the Eastman Klezmer Ensemble at ECMS, Director of Music and Strings at Hillel School, and composition mentor for the LA Inception Orchestra. He recently composed the score for New York's Metropolitan Playhouse documented drama, Love Letters from the Cold War, conducted his arrangements at the ASMAC Summer Concert celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Warner Bros. at Evergreen Studios in Burbank, CA, and conducted and performed with the Flight 584 Big Band in North Hollywood, CA. He has presented workshops at the APME Conferences and serves as a conducting clinician and principal viola for the NYSSMA/NYASTA Directors’ Orchestra in Albany. His works and licensed arrangements have been performed by ensembles across the globe, including the Pittsburgh, Knoxville, Oklahoma, Vermont, Salina, and Muncie Symphony Orchestras and the Sydney Opera House, and he manages his own music publishing business, Allentoff Music (www.allentoffmusic.com). He holds a Master of Arts degree specializing in Music, Interdisciplinary Arts, Education, and Technology with Honors from Stony Brook University’s School of Professional Development, and he received the Dr. Deborah C. Hecht Award for his MA thesis. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, in Interdisciplinary Arts and Music from SUNY Brockport. He is an active member and clinician for APME, ASCAP, ASMAC, ASTA, CODA, NAfME, and NYSSMA, and he serves on the Executive Board of NYASTA, ASMAC’s Event Planning Committee, and the LA Inception Orchestra Board of Directors.
