Jonathan Dagenais

Jonathan Dagenais, conductor

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

In addition to teaching at CEGEP and university (music theory, composition, ear training, musicianship, and conducting), Mr. Dagenais enjoys an active career as a composer and arranger for wind orchestra. His works have been performed repeatedly by numerous Canadian university and high school ensembles. They also appear on several professional recordings. His compositions are found in many North American concert band music festival syllabi and are currently published worldwide.

Jonathan is the conductor and artistic director of the Orchestre à Vents Non Identifié (OVNI), a Montreal wind orchestra that he co-founded in 2005. OVNI is an ensemble dedicated to collaborative and active listening, tone quality, refined interpretation, and humour. In 2010 and 2017, he was appointed conductor of the McGill Wind Orchestra. In 2012 he was a guest conductor for the Montreal Pop Symphony Orchestra. Jonathan Dagenais is also the conductor of the Cercle Philharmonique de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a position he has held since September 2012. In September 2015 he was named conductor of the Orchestre de jeux vidéo (Montreal Video Game Orchestra), an ensemble dedicated to video game soundtracks. A long-time 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. 

Jonathan Dagenais is a conductor, clinician, and educator for the Twigg Musique Company in Quebec and a Yamaha Canada Master Educational Artist. . 

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