Jonathan Pickow

As a composer and arranger, Jonathan Pickow has contributed to numerous recordings, video sound tracks, radio programs, and industrials.  His arrangements are in the repertoires of the Robert De Cormier Singers, The Düsing Singers, and folk singer Oscar Brand, among others.  Mr. Pickow began a professional singing career at a very young age, appearing with his mother, Appalachian folk singer Jean Ritchie, at concerts and folk festivals throughout the country, including The Newport Folk Festival, The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Fox Hollow, and Canada’s Mariposa Festival.  He has since produced and performed on many of Ms. Ritchie’s albums.  As a soloist Mr. Pickow encompasses many styles, medieval to twentieth-century, to the traditional music of many cultures.  He has toured domestically and internationally with Harry Belafonte, the Gregg Smith Singers, the Robert De Cormier Singers and The Norman Luboff Choir, and has performed with such conductors as Gunther Schuller, Roger Wagner, and André Previn.