{"id":1761,"date":"2016-02-12T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fountainvalleyumc.org\/church\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2016-02-13T11:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T19:11:40","slug":"new-worship-leadermusic-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/2016\/02\/12\/new-worship-leadermusic-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"New Worship Leader\/Music Minister!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FVUMC\u00a0is pleased to announce the hiring of Jonathan Kupper as our new Worship Leader\/Music Minister who began his ministry with us on February 7<sup>th<\/sup>!\u00a0 Jonathan is a composer, pianist, worship leader and musical director whose artistic\u00a0endeavors have taken him throughout the United States and the world. \u00a0 He has received numerous awards &amp; honors and has studied and received scholarships from the Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, New York University, University of Southern California, Oregon Bach Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Interlochen Festival. \u00a0 As a pianist, he has toured throughout the U.S. and Italy, and has previously served as Music Director\/conductor for: <i>Back to Bachrach<\/i>, <i>The Wizard of Oz<\/i>, <i>The Sound of Music<\/i>, <i>A Xmas Carol<\/i>, <i>OUR TOWN: 75<\/i><i><sup>th<\/sup><\/i><i> Anniversary<\/i>, <i>Nuncrackers<\/i>, <i>Fiddler on the Roof<\/i> (Southeast CLO), and <i>Bat Boy<\/i> (LB Playhouse).\u00a0 He has served for many years in church-related ministries, including most recently as the Director of Music at Buena Park First Congregational Church. \u00a0 Jonathan and his wife, Adrienne, have two children: Evelyn 3, and David, 22 months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FVUMC\u00a0is pleased to announce the hiring of Jonathan Kupper as our new Worship Leader\/Music Minister who began his ministry with us on February 7th!\u00a0 Jonathan is a composer, pianist, worship leader and musical director whose artistic\u00a0endeavors have taken him throughout the United States and the world. \u00a0 He has received numerous awards &amp; honors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}