Jonathan is a vocal teacher, performer and composer with over 30 years experience working with singers both individually and in groups across all styles from classical to jazz, R&B to musical theatre. In 2008 with co-director Sian Croose, he founded the Voice Project - a performance and educational charity based in Norwich, working across the UK and beyond and creating large-scale, open-access pieces of choral theatre with specially-written music for festivals including The Brighton Festival, The Norfolk and Norwich Festival, London Jazz Festival, Jazz Sous Les Pommiers (France) and the Gateshead International Jazz Festival.
He trained at Goldsmiths, RCM, the University of East Anglia and Community Music and is skilled in working with students of all ages and abilities fixing vocal issues quickly and reliably through a thorough understanding of the voice. In his regular teaching practice he specialises in working with singers from all walks of life as well as professional performers, those applying for vocational training, young performers looking to take their singing more seriously and total beginners looking to improve quickly or sing for fun. He teaches voice and singing at both the University of East Anglia and Norwich University of the Arts.
As a performer, he was a founder member of Innererklang Music Theatre performing lead roles in UK tours of works by Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze, Luciano Berio and Trevor Wishart. Recently, he played the voice of the artist Egon Schiele in a collaboration with the composer Orlando Gough and the choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh for the ‘Staging Schiele’ UK tour. He performs regularly with the Voice Project Quintet as well as Human Music a vocal octet with singers drawn from across the UK.
He has collaborated with artists and composers including Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, Barbara Thompson, Jon Hassell, Andy Sheppard, Nik Bärtsch, Gwilym Simcock, Steve Beresford, Helen Chadwick, Orlando Gough, BJ Cole and Van Dyke Parks.
He is a founder member of The Neutrinos with whom he has recorded four albums, touring throughout Europe and North America and KlangHaus, an award-winning immersive performance project producing over ninety shows at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
