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Resident Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the London Mozart Players since 2022, together they celebrate the orchestra’s 75th birthday this season with an array of starry soloists, recreating Mozart’s 1983 Vienna concert and continuing their community music-making to celebrate Croydon’s year as Borough of Culture.
Guesting highlights in 23/24 include debuts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie and with the BBC Symphony, a return to the London Philharmonic, and another tour with Philharmonic Brass (musicians from Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras) culminating in a televised concert in the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg. He also returns to the Belgian National, Residentie Orkest, Estonian National, and conducts the Bonn Beethovenorchester, Ostrobothnian Chamber, and the orchestra of Opera North all for the first time. Last season he debuted with the Tokyo Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Trondheim Symphony, made multiple visits to the Salzburg Mozarteumorchester, and returned to the Hallé Orchestra and to the Britten Sinfonia at the Aldeburgh Festival.
He has recorded CDs with the London Symphony Orchestra (2022) and Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (2021, Strauss and Cesar Franck): “irresistible” Musicweb International.
For the past 15 years Jonathan has been Artistic Director of the Northern Chords Festival based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Passionate about unearthing little-known composers and championing new work, Jonathan has commissioned several premieres by young composers such as Vlad Maistorovici, Jack Sheen and Freya Waley Cohen. Jonathan’s conducting career was launched when he took up the Assistant Conductor position at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2016-2018 under Mirga Grazynte-Tyla. He was then invited by Paavo Järvi to conduct the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, since when he has become a regular guest.
Before taking up conducting he was a founder member and the cellist of the Busch Trio, performing regularly at the Wigmore Hall, across Europe and on BBC Radio 3, and still plays chamber music on occasion. Whilst studying at the Royal College of Music he won several prestigious awards including the Suggia Gift and the RCM Cello Prize; he made his concerto debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2012. He began his musical training at the age of 8 with a local cello teacher from the Gateshead Schools Music Service. He then studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School & Royal College of Music with Thomas Carroll before completing a Master’s degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Louise Hopkins, taking further conducting studies with Sian Edwards, Michael Seal, Nicolas Pasquet and Paavo Järvi.
473 words – 23/24 biography, as of 12 July 2023. Not to be altered without the permission of Intermusica Artists’ Management.