At
the tender age of five, Jonathan's first visit to the Bristol Hippodrome
was all it took to ignite an immediate obsession for the theatre. By his
mid-teens, he had written five pantomimes, all of which were performed locally
in his native Wiltshire, but musical theatre was to become his focus and
passion.
The Arts Council of England financially supported a complete concept recording
of Jonathan's first musical, Professor
Utopia, and extracts were staged at the London Palladium as part
of the Vivian Ellis Gala. Julia
McKenzie presented Professor Utopia with the Mercury Development
Prize, and Jonathan was invited to join Mercury Musical Developments.
This was followed by the recording of a
Suite for Piano & Orchestra, a condensed symphonic version of the
Professor Utopia score.
In collaboration with librettist Sebastian
Michael, Jonathan has just completed work on the score for a new musical
drama, Alvaro’s Balcony.
The full-scale concept recording
features among others Beverley Klein, Edward Petherbridge, Kevin Colson,
Darryl Knock, Andrew C Wadsworth, Valerie Cutko and George Daniel Long.
For Happy Feet Stories, Jonathan provided the scores for audio books of
The Selfish Giant and EarthDances,
and the publication by Netherlands-based Dennis Music of his production
library CD, Children's Drama,
has led to his music being used for television in Germany, Austria, Taiwan
and South Africa. |
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