Jonathan Brown

Jonathan Brown sang with us on Saturday 20th March 2010 in our performance of Bach’s masterpiece, St John Passion, with period instruments.

 

Jonathan Brown was born in Toronto. He has studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), the University of Western Ontario and Cambridge University, England as well as the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh with Sir Thomas Allen and Anthony Rolfe Johnson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operatic roles include Marcello (La Bohème, Royal Albert Hall, London), Belcore (L’Elisir d’Amore), Count Almaviva, Don Giovanni, Silvio (I Pagliacci), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), Shepherd (Venus and Adonis), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas). He performed the role of Trojan (Idomeneo) for Sir Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic in the Salzburg Easter Festival. He recently performed Pastore (Orfeo) at Lille Opéra, Le Chatêlet, Paris and Opéra du Rhin with Emmanuelle Haim. Recent appearances include Christus (St Matthew Passion) at the Barbican, London, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Te Deum with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, and a Christmas Concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent operatic work includes Giove (La Calisto) and Orestes (Giasone) for Iford Festival, Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea) in London, Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande) at Sadlers Wells, London and the Ferryman (Curlew River) in Cambridge.

 

Jonathan made his debut with Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Holland (Naarden) in 2000 as the baritone soloist in a concert of Bach cantatas and thereafter was a regular soloist with performances in Zurich, Brussels and Paris. CD recordings of these concerts have begun to be released. Other concert work has included a tour of St Matthew Passion across Europe (Spain, Andorra, Germany and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London) and Bach’s Magnificat, both conducted by Sir Roger Norrington; Saul in King’s College, Cambridge, Nelson Mass in Canterbury Cathedral, Brahms’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Handel’s Apollo e Dafne.

 

He has featured as a soloist on the Harmonia Mundi recordings of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Blow’s Venus and Adonis under the direction of René Jacobs, and in Purcell’s Ode to St Cecilia with Philippe Herreweghe. He has also recorded the baritone solos in the Fauré Requiem with the London Festival Orchestra for BMG and the role of the Forester in Sullivan’s The Golden Legend for Hyperion.