MUSIC DIRECTION
Jonathan considers his true calling to be music directing and conducting, and has worked on everything from small solo cabarets to national tours of Broadway shows. He was previously the Associate Music Director on three national tours of the musical “Cats” from 2019-2023. He has MD’d Houston-area productions for A.D. Players Theatre, Stages Theatre, the Queensbury Theatre, and Lone Star Lyric Theatre. He was also the AMD and associate conductor for "Frozen" at TUTS in 2024.
CONDUCTING CREDITS: Cats, Fiddler On The Roof, Frozen, She Loves Me, The Wizard of Oz (RSC)
SELECTED MD/PIANO-CONDUCTOR CREDITS: Carrie, American Idiot, Forever Plaid, Charlie Brown Christmas, Godspell, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Elf, The Last Five Years, Stars Of David, Adrift In Macao, Whistle Down The Wind
Jonathan is quite at home working with performers of all ages. At the collegiate level, he has MD’d shows at Sam Houston State University, the University of Houston, and University of St. Thomas. He was also the MD for a youth theater program (grades 3-5) at the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC from 2015-2016, and has MD'd several summer shows for HITS Theatre in the Heights neighborhood of Houston. He even taught a Kindergarten and pre-k summer music camp in 2017!