Jonathan Gunthorpe

Jonathan Gunthorpe read English and Russian at Leeds University, achieved an MA in Music in Birmingham, was a Kit and Constant Lambert Scholar at the RCM and studied at the National Opera Studio, supported by the Sybil Tutton Trust and Welsh National Opera. His concert engagements have included performances at the BBC Proms, the Bath, Cheltenham, Lichfield, Turku, Lufthansa and Perth Festivals and with the Darmstadt Hofkapelle, the Apollo Chamber Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, English String Orchestra, London Mozart Players and LPO at venues such as the National Concert Hall, Dublin, the Barbican Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, St John’s, Smith Square, Westminster Abbey and many cold but beautiful cathedrals. Among his broadcasts have been Easter Glory and Friday Night is Music Night for the BBC. Operatic work includes Angelotti, Tosca, for the Royal Opera, Junis, Rape of Lucretia with the Other Theatre Company, Mr Noye with Sinfonia 21 and the Northern Sinfonia, Aeneas for the Early Opera Co. and Ex Cathedra, Basilio, L’amore industioso, for Opera Holland Park, Mozart’s Grabmusik for the Classical Opera Co. and Bouncer, Cox and Box at the Musée d’Orsay.

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