Jonathan Butcher has appeared at all the major London concert venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, South Bank and St. John’s Smith Square and has conducted orchestras including the London Mozart Players, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, New London Orchestra, Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Bach Orchestra, working with international soloists including Dame Moira Lympany, Steven Isserlis, Marisa Robles, Julian Lloyd Webber and Peter Katin.
Abroad he has worked with the Promenade Orchestra of Radio Hilversum, Holland, the National Orchestra of Malta and the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. He has conducted two Hoffnung Concerts in Munich, as well as six New Year Concerts in and around Ludvigshaven, Germany, where he has also conducted a concert of film music with the renowned jazz singer Jocelyn B. Smith.
“It was obvious that there is the closest of rapport between the WPO and its long-serving conductor Jonathan Butcher”
Antony Hodgson, 15 December, 2018, Classical Source
Equally at home with the symphonic, operatic, choral and music theatre repertoire, Jonathan has conducted and presented the Family Concerts at Polesden Lacey since their inception and regularly conducts their open-air Promenade Concerts. He was for many years Conductor and Musical Director of both the National Symphony and National Chamber Orchestras of the IAPS – the former giving their concerts in the celebrated Snape Maltings in Suffolk.
Jonathan is Musical Director of the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra and the Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been Artistic Director of Surrey Opera for some thirty-five years, is co-founder and Artistic Director of The North Downs Music Group, and directs two choirs at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Jonathan is an established Director in his own right, a role he has fulfilled numerous times for Surrey Opera.
“Butcher guided his players through the complexities of this score with a sure hand”
Alexander Hall, 12 October 2019, Classical Source
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Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra
“The Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra (IWSO) has been proud to present a regular programme of classical music, from its home venue at the Medina Theatre in Newport, for over 40 years… “
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Surrey Opera
“Surrey Opera was founded by the late Joyce Hooper MBE in 1969. In June 1970, she embarked upon the most ambitious project of her career, staging the Mozart operas, starting with the Magic Flute…”
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
“We are dedicated to world-leading training in the dramatic arts. We offer vocational training for actors, stage managers, designers and technical stagecraft specialists...”
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WESTMINSTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 