First Coast Connect: Jacksonville Symphony’s New Chorus Director: Dr. Tony Thorton @WJCTJax

Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

A 40-year-old chorus gets a new leader — one who literally wrote the book on how to succeed as a choral singer: The Choral Singer's Survival Guide. Ahead of both a new season and regional auditions for vocalists, we sit down with incoming director of the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus to discuss what it means to start anew after his predecessor’s decade and a half tenure and how his own musical experience, from Europe to Carnegie Hall, brought him to the First Coast.

Guest: Tony Thornton, director, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus

First Coast Connect: Jacksonville Symphony’s New Chorus Director: Dr. Tony Thorton

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