Jonathan is known for his intelligent and passionate music-making across a wide range of choral, orchestral and operatic repertoire. Having studied with Leon Lovett, Colin Metters and Kenneth Keisler, Jonathan has performed much of the great choral repertoire from the B minor Mass to Belshazzar’s Feast, orchestral works from Haydn symphonies to Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé. and opera from Eugene Onegin with British Youth Opera to Oedipus Rex and Martinu's Mariken of Nijmegen in his own translation.
But it is with the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau that Jonathan has developed a special affinity. Building on his long association with Rameau, Jonathan has conducted several Rameau operas: three with OAE in the Queen Elizabeth Hall (Anacréon, Pigmalion and Zaïs, all semi-staged); Dardanus with English Touring Opera (fully staged), and Les fêtes d'Hébé at the Opéra de Bastille and the RCM's Britten Theatre (fully staged). Most recently, Jonathan gave the UK premiere of the original version of Castor et Pollux. More details about Jonathan's experience with Rameau can be found here. Other recent projects include:
Recent engagements
Beethoven – Missa Solemnis (using period instruments) at the Cadogan Hall, London
Fauré – Requiem with the English Chamber Orchestra
Vaughan Williams – Third Symphony
And other similar events, all using period instruments, including:
Bach – B Minor Mass, Christmas Oratorio and various cantatas
Beethoven – Mass in C and Elegischer Gesang
Handel – Dixit dominus, Nisi dominus, Messiah and Te deum in A
Mozart – ‘Coronation’ Mass, Mass in C minor, Missa Solemnis, Requiem, Vesperae de Dominica and Vesperae de Confessore
Haydn – The Creation
Vivaldi – Credo, Dixit dominus, Gloria and Magnificat
English Chamber Orchestra
Vivaldi Credo, Poulenc Organ Concerto, Parry I was glad, Britten St Nicolas
London Mozart Players
Vivaldi Credo, Holst Two psalms, Britten St Nicolas
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Queen Elizabeth Hall – Debussy Prèlude de l’après-midi d’un faune, Poulenc Gloria, Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
Cadogan Hall – Brahms Requiem, Julian Philips Sea and Stars (world première)
New Music
Nicola Lefanu – St Hilda of Whitby: A Cantata
The world première, commissioned to celebrate the 125th anniversary of St Hilda’s College
BBC Concert Orchestra
Recording the soundtrack for the BBC documentary Filthy Cities at Angel Studios.