Jonathan Crowhurst is a singer and conductor who began his musical education with piano lessons and joined the Kent Music Academy as an oboist in 2003. He was a member of the Kent Youth Choirs for four years touring Austria and Holland and continues to be a member of the Kent Youth Chamber Choir. He graduated with a BMus (hons) degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2008.
Jonathan has performed the roles of Spoletta (Tosca) for Greenwich Park Opera, Second Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte), Morales (Carmen), Hobson (Peter Grimes) and Antonio (Le Nozze de Figaro) for OperaGold (and Situation Opera) the Huntsman and the Shepherd (Venus and Adonis) and the Sailor (Dido and Aeneas) for Hampstead Garden Opera as well as chorus in productions of Dido & Aeneas (Situation Opera), Der fliegende Holländer (London Lyric Opera), La Cenenterola and Carmen (Mean Time Opera). He has sung for the BBC Symphony Chorus and London Philharmonic Choir and now sings for chamber choirs and church choirs including Londinium Voices under Madeleine Lovell and the Holst Singers with Stephen Layton. Jonathan is also on the Professional Singers Scheme for the Philharmonia Chorus.
As a conductor Jonathan is the Music Director of Maidstone Wind Symphony and the Puregold Ensemble. His other conducting roles have included experiences with Opera Nova, Kent Youth Chamber Orchestra, Canterbury Orchestra, Maidstone Youth Music Society, Londinium Voices and Goldsmiths College Chamber Choir.