Jonathan Crowhurst has a growing reputation as a performer, teacher and conductor.
Having completed the first part of his music education at Maidstone Youth Music Society where he held the position of principal oboe in Maidstone Youth Orchestra and Maidstone Youth Wind Orchestra, Jonathan then joined the Kent Centre for Young Instrumentalists (KMA), now Kent Academy of Music, in 2003. There he studied oboe under Sue Purton and piano with Karen Wildy. He was also a member of the Kent Youth Choirs for four years touring Austria and Holland and played in the Kent Youth Chamber Orchestra.
Jonathan continued his studies and graduated with a BMus (hons) degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2008. He conducted the chamber choir, was principal oboe of the college Sinfonia performing in the UK Premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s Songs of Our Days as well as contemporary works by Schnittke, Saariaho and Ives. Jonathan has been a member of the London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus and Londinium Voices performing in a number of acclaimed performances.
Jonathan performed as part of the college opera company, OperaGold, in productions of Peter Grimes (Hobson), Marriage of Figaro (Antonio), Carmen (Morales) and Magic Flute (Second Armed Man). He has since gone on to play roles in Venus and Adonis (Shepherd and Huntsman), Dido and Aeneas (Sailor), and Tosca (Spoletta), as well as chorus in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer.
Taking up the baton, Jonathan has conducted the Puregold Ensemble, whom he founded in 2009, the Kent Youth Chamber Orchestra and Maidstone Wind Symphony. His current tenure as Music Director of Maidstone Wind Symphony has been marked with a series of well-received concerts including collaborations with the Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Maidstone Youth Wind Orchestra, virtuoso percussionist Gavin Pritchard and Principal Cornet of the International Staff Band, Kevin Ashman. Future collaborations include a recording with acclaimed trombonist Brett Baker and concerts with Eynsford Concert Band, Byneset Musikkorps, Maidstone Choral Union and Philharmonie Gelre.
He serves as a teacher of music at Invicta Grammar School for Girls after teaching at Maidstone Grammar School and vocal studies with Kent Music and Medway Schools Music Association.
With his roots in the British choral tradition, Jonathan currently sings for the Holst Singers under Stephen Layton recording and until recently sang professionally for the Philharmonia Chorus as a member of their Young Professional Singers Scheme.