A highly versatile musician, Bristol-born Jonathan Rees has performed across the globe with the UK's leading chamber and historical performance ensembles and orchestras. As a chamber musician he has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh International Festival, Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Musiekgebouw, Innsbrucker Festwochen, St George´s Bristol and on BBC Radio 3. A member of the renowned viol consort Fretwork, he has also performed as continuo / principal cellist and gamba soloist with the Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, Florilegium, Dunedin Consort, The Sixteen, ENO, Britten Sinfonia, RLPO, Manchester Camerata, Hugh Cutting / Morpheus Ensemble and the Wigmore Hall resident ensemble Solomon's Knot. With acclaimed pianist Helen Reid, Jonathan is one half of a piano-cello duo focussing on 20th- and 21st-century repertoire, in particular the music and influence of Nadia Boulanger. An Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, Jonathan has taught undergraduate and postgraduate historical cello students at the Royal College of Music, given historical performance classes at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music, Juilliard School, Birmingham Conservatoire, Cambridge University and the Royal Northern College of Music. He is Artistic Director of Bristol Pre-Conservatoire and teaches privately in the Bristol area. He has given improvisation classes at the Royal Academy and runs an improvisation club in Bristol. He has devised and led music workshops and children's concerts for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Brighton Early Music Festival and others. From 2013 to 2018 he directed and performed at Bristol's acclaimed annual festival, Really Classical Relay. Outside of the world of music, he spends a lot of his time making compost and growing vegetables for his family and other local wildlife. https://www.jonathanreescello.co.uk
