Jonathan’s theatrical credits include The Jew of Malta, Anya, The American Pilot, and White Out (all with the Royal Shakespeare Company), The Kite Runner, Sleuth, Charlie Peace & Families of Lockerbie (with Nottingham Playhouse in co-pro with Liverpool Everyman/ Flying Kite Productions/WYP & Coventry Belgrade), Margaret Catchpole (Eastern Angles), Flight of Hope (People Show), Three Wheels (ACE/Birmingham REP), and Dreaming (BSA). His show Nine Lives (dir: Alex Chisolm) is still touring the UK, is featured on BBC Arts Online and has been nominated for two national awards.
His music is broadcast and played worldwide on film, TV and radio through Audio Network. Jonathan won a Royal Television Society Award with Losing It (Channel 4), has been published by Faber, with many other concert-hall commissions including Gogmagog (English National Opera), Lights Out (New York Arts), Grimm Tales (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Radio 3), Flight to the Ford (CBSO), It’s not a game & The Long Lost Son (Evelyn Glennie), Black Heart & A Little Madness (BBC Singers), and O Rex Gentium (Ex Cathedra), winning national awards with The Ice Palace.
Jonathan achieved a First Class Honours in Music (BA), and was awarded a Doctorate in Musical Composition in 2006 through Birmingham Conservatoire. He taught at Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham City University on Bed, BMus and post-graduate courses for many years, and has led learning and participation projects with organisations such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Brodsky Quartet, NESTA and ENO, featuring on BBC Radio 3 and national television.
He has also won a number of awards in support of his music from the Holst Foundation, Gulbenkian Foundation, Foundation for Sport and the Arts, Arts Council England, Ann Driver Trust, & Sidney Perry Foundation, among others.
Jonathan is presently working on several projects including Living Lakes with Anita Gonzalez and Joel Valentin-Martinez in the United States, Macbeth with the National Theatre, and The Kite Runner’s transfer to London’s West End for 2016/17.