Jonathan has recently conducted at the Wiener Staatsoper (Don Carlo, L’Elisir d’Amore, Madame Butterfly), the Semperoper Dresden (Iphigénie en Tauride and La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein), the Paris Opera (Le Parc), and Frankfurt Oper (Der Prinz von Homburg). Future engagements see him return to the Vancouver Opera (Cavalleria Rusticana), Paris Opera Ballet (Le Parc), Hamburg Staatsoper (Fledermaus), Leipzig Oper (Don Giovanni), Lake Tahoe Festival, and to the Dresden Semperoper; as well as leading concerts with the Nurnberger Symphoniker, Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Orchestra of the 18th Century appearing at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Jonathan possesses a vast symphonic and operatic repertoire from the Baroque to the Contemporary, and has a reputation for structuring concert programs that take the listener on a fascinating musical journey owing to their strong inner dramaturgical thread.
In his early career, Jonathan worked as Deputy to the Music Director Myung Whun Chung at the Paris Opera from 1991 to 1993 conducting Le Nozze di Figaro, Das Lied von der Erde, Die Zauberflöte. He also led the French experimental opera group ARCAL conducting an incredible set of avantgarde-productions of The Turn of the Screw, L’Ormindo, Orlando, Le Pauvre Matelot, Così fan tutte. In the year, he has worked with some of the most prestigious opera houses and orchestras in the world such as the Paris Opera, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Staatskapelle Dresden, Vienna Philharmonic, Opera Australia, Royal Swedish Opera, English National Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Orchestre National de France, Warsaw Philharmonic, exploring an enormous and wide repertoire.
In 2014, Jonathan made his début at the Vienna State Opera conducting Madama Butterfly and has returned there annually since (Madama Butterfly, Otello, Don Carlos, L’Elisir d’Amore). More recently he has conducted at Vancouver Opera (L’elisir d’amore, Otello, Dead Man Walking, Eugene Onegin, Faust), and regularly appeared at the Dresden Semperoper (Eugene Onegin, Fidelio, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and recently Grand Duchesse Gerolstein by Offenbach), the Swedish Royal Opera (Jenufa, Le Nozze di Figaro and La Bohéme), Hamburg Staatsoper (Die Fledermaus) and Frankfurt Oper (Falstaff, The Makropulos Case, Vanessa).
As Music Director of the Duisburger Philharmoniker from 2002 to 2011 he explored a vast symphonic repertoire which earned him the prestigious “Köhler- Osbar Stiftung” and “Deutsche Musikverleger-Verband” prizes for the quality and creativity of his concert programming. Among his recordings features performances of Shostakovich Symphony Nr.15, Mahler Symphonies 5 and 6, Jolivet piano concerto, Strauss Don Quixote, Poulenc Les Animaux Modèles and the ECHO-Klassik Prize awarded-recording of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Susanna Yoko-Henkel. After his successful début with the Orchestre de Paris earlier in the 2015-2016 season which was broadcast live on the internet for Mezzo TV, Jonathan was immediately re-engaged. In the summer of 2017, he conducted a 12-city tour of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, including live streaming from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver and in the summer of 2018 Jonathan conducted them on tour again, including concerts at the Berlin Konzerthaus and Kassel – and UK at the Edinburgh International Festival.
His next highlights include the return to the Nuremberger Symphoniker, a new production of Die Fledermaus at the Hamburg Staatsoper, a new production of Prinz von Homburg by Henze at the Frankfurt Oper, his return to the Paris Opera with a Mats Ek tribute and to Dresden Semperoper with La Boheme and Don Giovanni, as well as a new production of Don Giovanni at the Leipzig Oper.
Jonathan is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
