James Burton (conductor)

He is currently the Boston Symphony Orchestra Choral Director and Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Burton holds a master's degree from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied orchestral conducting with Frederik Prausnitz and Gustav Meier.

Other international appearances have included the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston USA, Aalborg Symphony in Denmark,[8] and in 2017 Burton was the guest director of Japan's National Youth Choir.

He founded the Hallé Youth Choir in 2003, and from 2002 to 2017 he was the music director of Schola Cantorum of Oxford,[12] leading the choir on international tours, recordings on the Hyperion label[13] and appearing in BBC TV films about British composers made by John Bridcut.

[16] His arrangements have been played by the Boston Pops, and he orchestrated the album In Times Like These[17] for American folk singer Arlo Guthrie.