Born in London, Jonathan read music at Bristol University and later studied conducting with George Hurst. He is Music Director of Mid Wales Opera, Ludlow Orchestra and Opera Project which he co-founded in 1993. He has conducted for many years at Longborough Festival Opera and West Green House Opera. For MWO: The Magic Flute, Semele, Eugene Onegin, Tosca, Dido and Aeneas, La bohème, The Marriage of Figaro, Macbeth and Hansel and Gretel. His many reduced orchestrations of operas are performed extensively worldwide, his arrangement of Walton’s The Bear is published by OUP (and was filmed by Opera Holland Park) and his arrangement of Montsalvatge’s El Gato con botas is published by Peermusic Classical, NY.
Thanks to the enormous outpouring of love – and money! – from our friends and supporters, and from opera lovers across the country – and a hugely important grant from Powys County Council’s Shared Prosperity Fund allocation, we are now actively developing our artistic plans for the next two years… find out more …or…