Jonathan Cohen
Jonathan Cohen is one of Britain's finest young musicians. He has forged a remarkable career
with notable success as a conductor, cellist and keyboardist. He is well known for his passion and
commitment to chamber music which he expands to diverse activities such as baroque opera and
the classical symphonic repertoire. He is Artistic Director of Arcangelo and Associate Conductor
of Les Arts Florissants.
Recent conducting highlights have included Aix en Provence Festival with the Mahler Chamber
Orchestra (Mozart), Edinburgh Festival and Aldeburgh Festival with Arcangelo (Handel and
Porpora), Lucerne Festival with Mahler Chamber Soloists (Bach), Monteverdi's Return of
Ulysses at English National Opera and a tour of Asia with the Academy of Saint Martin in the
Fields (Mozart and Beethoven symphonies and concerti).
In the 12/13 season Jonathan Cohen returns to Glyndebourne on Tour to conduct Mozart's Le
nozze di Figaro, returns to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Irish Chamber
Orchestra and makes debuts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Het Residentie Orchestra, RTE
Ireland, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Tiroler Sinfonieorchester. He will take up his position
of Artistic Director at Tetbury Festival.
With Arcangelo, Jonathan's recently created ensemble has already a varied and busy diary of
engagements and will include concerts this season at Musikverein Wien, Berlin Philharmonie,
Wigmore Hall, and the Tetbury Festival amongst others. Arcangelo has been gaining fast
recognition for exceptional performances and for collaborating with distinguished soloists at the
highest level. Busy in the recording studio Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen have been recently
released to five star reviews with Porpora cantatas and Arias for Guadagni with Iestyn Davies on
Hyperion. Most recently released was a disc of arias with Christiane Karg (Mozart, Gluck) on
Berlin Classics and future releases will include baroque arias on Deutsche Grammophon with
Anna Prohaska and Handel on Hyperion with Christopher Purves.
Jonathan enjoys a close relationship with Les Arts Florissants and for their 30th anniversary
season he collaborated with William Christie conducting performances of Dido and Aeneas
(Netherlands Opera), Purcell's Fairy Queen (Opéra Comique and Brooklyn Academy New York).
His recent performances with Les Arts Florissants have been a double bill of Charpentier and
Blow in Paris and Versailles staged by Bruno Ravella.
In the coming seasons, Jonathan intends to focus his energies on developing Arcangelo whilst
enjoying his collaboration with Les Arts Florissants and his rapidly expanding guest conducting
career.
September 2012