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From 1981 to 1984, he served as Principal Oboe for the Savannah Symphony and from 1984 to 1986 he was a member of the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He appeared on their Christmas album, Gloria! Gloria!, along with The Philadelphia Singers, the chorus-in-residence of The Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1986, he joined The Philadelphia Orchestra, and has been with them ever since.

He was the guest soloist of The Lenape Chamber Ensemble on 22^nd July 1989 in a performance of “Quartet for Oboe and Strings” by Mozart at Delaware Valley College. In 1997, he appeared on the Temple University Wind Symphony’s self-titled album on the Albany label, tearing into Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Variations on a Theme of Glinka for Solo Oboe and Military Band”. He participated in Princeton University’s Oboe Blow-Out on 29^th March 1998, teaching a master class entitled “Taming the Oboe’s Low Register”.

On 10^th December 2000, he helped premiere the “Oboe Concerto” of Curt Cacioppo at Marshall Auditorium in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He recorded the concerto for an album called New Music for Oboe, which hit the shelves in 2002. On 20^th November 2005, Curt and Jonathan were reunited in Medford Leas, New Jersey, for a recital of Bach, Hindemith and Schumann.

Jonathan returned to the studio and recorded Howard Hanson’s “Pastorale” for an all-Hanson affair on the Naxos label, which was released in 2006. In 2007, he performed on the compact disc, Instantes: Music by Manena Contreres.

Jonathan was the host of Woodwind Day on 22^nd November 2009 at Rutgers University, where he teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts. He also sits on the Philadelphia Orchestra Master Class Faculty and lectures at Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance.

Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia recordings

Adeste Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)

RCA 6559-2-RC (Gloria! Gloria!)

Soprano – Benita Valente

The Philadelphia Singers

Conductor – Michael Korn

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