Patrick Jonathan
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Life
Patrick Jonathan is a composer born in London, England, but currently based in Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
, Malaysia. A former student of Stanley Glasser
Stanley Glasser
Stanley Glasser , is a South African-born composer and academic who studied with Matyas Seiber at Cambridge. His concert music is deeply influenced by his ethnomusicological investigations of native African music...
, Edward Gregson
Edward Gregson
Edward Gregson is an English composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. He was born in Sunderland, England, in 1945. He studied composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1963-7, winning five prizes for composition...
and Don B. Ray, he cites the great English symphonist Richard Arnell
Richard Arnell
Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets.-Biography:Arnell was born in Hampstead, London...
as his mentor, and a major influence on his creative life.
While still a student, Patrick Jonathan provided more than a dozen scores for films produced by students at the London International Film School under the guidance of Arnell, who headed the music department at that institution.
Having pursued careers in music publishing and teaching, Patrick Jonathan maintained a career as a composer of pop, jazz, jingle, theatre and children's music. He was nominated for a prestigious Boh/Cameronian Award for his 2004 score to the play 'Little Violet and the Angel', by Philip Osment.
For the last few years, Patrick Jonathan's creative efforts have been focussed on producing serious works for the concert platform. His large-scale Symphony No 2, 'DEBS' was premiered to great acclaim by Warren Cohen
Warren Cohen
Warren Cohen is a Canadian composer, conductor and pianist currently resident in Cave Creek, Arizona, USA, where he is the musical director of the Scottsdale-based MusicaNova, a collection of orchestras and ensembles that are identified by a mission statement - Musica Nova means new music - rather...
and the Musica Nova Orchestra in Scottsdale, Arizona in January 2007.
Music
Symphony No. 2 ‘DEBS’ (2005) 50 minsSymphony No. 1 for Chamber Orchestra (1987) 20 mins
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2003) 40 mins
Concerto for Bassoon and Strings (2008-2010) 15 mins
Concertino - Quasi Variazione for Oboe, String Orchestra and Timps (2006) 15 mins
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1999/2006) 15 mins
Meditation for String Quartet and String Orchestra (2005) 5 mins
Fantasia Variazione on a theme by Graham Cohen (2007) 9 mins
Starlight Berceuse for Small Orchestra (2006) 3 mins
Fascinating Rohan for Small Orchestra (2006) 5 mins
3 Sketches for Chamber Orchestra (1987) 10 mins
The Voyage of Odysseus - a Masque (2005) 30 mins (for Orchestra and Chorus)
Gran-nan’s Ninety Wishes (2005) 10 mins (for Solo Cornet, Brass, Harp and Strings)
Sonata for Violin and Piano (2008) 29 mins
Little Suite for unaccompanied Violin (2008) 20 mins
Piano Sonata No 1 (2007) 12 mins
Piano Sonata No 2 (2010) 11 mins
24 Preludes for Piano Solo (2009/2010) 40 mins
KLANG! for 4 Marimbas (or 2 Vibes and 2 Marimbas) and Multi-percussionist (2010) 10 mins
Postcards from KL for Violin, Piano and Percussion (2009) 20 mins
Suite-Fantasy for Flute and Bassoon (2007) 20mins
String Quartet (2006) 20mins
Sonata for Oboe and Piano (2005) 15mins
Sonata for Flute and Piano (1997) 12mins
Nexus for Bassoon and Piano (1986) 10mins
Four Duologues for Violin and Cello (1987) 10mins
Wind Quintet (1983) 13mins
Awards
- 2004 - Nominated for Boh/Cameronian Award for his 2004 score to the play 'Little Violet and the Angel', by Philip Osment.