Jonathon Heyward

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Jonathon Heyward
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Jonathon Heyward is an American conductor. He has been chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie from 2021.

Biography

Heyward grew up in South Carolina, U.S., in a family with no exposure to classical music;[1] his father lived in Haarlem, and his mother had parents from Russia and Yugoslavia. He was first trained as a cellist and chamber musician. He studied conducting at the Boston Conservatory with Andrew Altenbach, and then was assistant conductor for both the conservatory's opera department and the Boston Opera Collaborative, where he worked on productions of Puccini's La Bohème, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.[2] He completed post-graduate studies at the at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Sian Edwards in 2016.[3]

Heywards was assistant conductor at the Hampstead Garden Opera Company from 2013. He won the 2015 International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors. When he left the Academy, he became assistant conductor of The Hallé, and music director of The Hallé Youth Orchestra.[1] He has been chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie from 2021.[1][3]

He conducted the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall in London at a concert of the 2021 Proms in a new work by Laura Jurd, Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto with soloist Nicola Benedetti, and Beethoven's Third Symphony.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Alumni Spotlight / Jonathon Heyward". Royal Academy of Music. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Jonathon Heyward". Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Jonathon Heyward / Chefdirigent" (in German). Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  4. ^ Willson, Flora (8 August 2021). "Prom 10: NYO/Benedetti/Heyward review – guts, virtuosity … and kazoos". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
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