Jon Harthug‍

He is a great musician and a professional choir conductor. He enjoys the intersection between the roles of musician, choir leader, and teacher, and finds it stimulating to work with people.

Jon has a classical background, but has worked with all kinds of music and is always interested in expanding his palette, and has extensive experience as a choir leader for a number of choirs in Oslo and the surrounding area since 2013, and has led well-attended concerts with external musicians and ensembles. He is largely self-taught as a conductor.

Important ensembles as of 2025 are Asker Bel Canto, an ambitious women’s choir, and KORET, which carries out boundary-breaking artistic projects with a foundation in classical music.

His concert collaborations as a conductor include work with, among others, Tord Gustavsen, Sølvguttene, jazz trombonist Erik Johannesen, the noise duo Garner/Lindvall, cathedral organist Marcus Berg, horn player Trude Eick, accordionist Bjørn-Petter Tøsse, and musicians from the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic. He has conducted concerts in, among other venues, Jakob Church, Frogner Church, Grønland Church, Paulus Church, DNB Kikut, Oslo Concert Hall, Henie Onstad Art Center, Jakob Church, the old Deichman Main Library, Frogner Cinema, as well as international performances in Denmark, Croatia and Italy.

In 2019, he won the senior category at the Norwegian National Choral Championship with Oslo Senior Choir.