Jonathan Eason serves as director of music at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Johns Creek, Georgia. He holds a master of music degree in voice and piano from the University of South Carolina, where he studied piano with Raymond Dudley and voice with the noted American heldentenor Gene Ferguson. After growing up Baptist, he converted to the Catholic faith in graduate school, in large part because of the spiritual treasure he found in the sacred music of the great masters.
Before coming to St. Brigid in September 2013, he served as director of music at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Camden, South Carolina, from 1993 to 2013. He became involved with the Church Music Association of America in 2006 and has never looked back, attending Sacred Music Colloquia XIX-XXI as well as chant workshops in various places. Although every Colloquium is beautiful and enriching, his best experience was Colloquium XXV in Pittsburgh because he shared it with soprano Renee Kotsovos Eason, his wife and musical partner, singing in the Fauré Requiem together under Dr. Horst Buchholz.
Since Jonathan became director of music, the Choir of St. Brigid has sung a number of archdiocesan events, including the closing Mass at the 2014 Eucharistic Congress and the archbishop’s annual 50/60 Anniversary Mass (2014 to present), as well as the 2016 recognition Mass for the Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. The Choir and Schola also sang the first mass of thanksgiving for Rev. Robbie Cotta in 2021.
When not engaged in his directorial and administrative duties, Eason also teaches voice and does freelance accompanying, arranging, and engraving. He has also branched out into video production and editing–skills he acquired out of necessity over the last two years. His compositions include the St. Jerome Mass (revised in 2011 and still in use at his former parish) and the New Jubilee Mass (1997), now in use at St. Brigid, as well as numerous choral responsorial psalms and other liturgical music.