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special events, whether "tailor-made" programmes for ceremonies or
just enjoyable background music, a very broad repertoire is
available;
Music by classical composers including ;
J.S.Bach, G.F.Händel, Francisco Tárrega, Isaac Albéniz and Fernando
Sor.
Latin-american music by Antonio Lauro, João Pernambuco, Astor
Piazzolla, Antonio Carlos Jobim and others.
Jazz and Broadway classics including the music of George Gershwin,
Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and many more...
Previous venues have included:
Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal National Theatre, Lulworth
Castle, Whiteleys of Bayswater, Linley, Diverso
A tremendously versatile guitarist and composer, Jonathan Preiss is
equally at home performing music from the classical guitar
repertoire, playing Brazilian music, jazz, avant-garde chamber music
or baroque concertos.
As soloist and as an ensemble guitarist Jonathan has performed at
venues throughout the UK, including St Martin-in-the-Fields, St
James' Piccadilly, the Barbican Centre, the Royal Festival Hall, the
Royal Court Theatre, Cheltenham Town Hall and Oxford's Holywell
Music Room. Festival performances have included Bath International
Guitar Festival (1997, 1998, 1999), Ludlow Festival (1998), Hebden
Bridge Festival (1998, 1999), Edinburgh Festival Fringe (1998) and
the Cheltenham Festival of Literature (2000).
In addition to the groups and ensembles of which he is a regular
member, Jonathan has also performed with, amongst others,
saxophonist Rob Hall, sitarist Dharambir Singh, music-theatre
company the Clod Ensemble, baroque orchestra the Georgian Camerata,
the LPO, and British Youth Opera.
Musical training
Jonathan Preiss is a graduate of the City of Leeds College of Music
(GCLCM - Jazz, Contemporary and Popular Music) and of Trinity
College of Music (University of London MMus - Performance and
Related Studies).
Having studied the piano from an early age, and later both classical
and electric guitar, he began his undergraduate studies at Leeds as
an electric guitarist. Influenced strongly by guitarists Ralph
Towner and Egberto Gismonti, he became fascinated by the possibility
of using the classical instrument and its technique for playing
improvised music and elected to transfer to study classical guitar.
For the remainder of the diploma course he studied under the
College's classical guitar professor Dr Graham Wade, the Segovia
scholar and biographer of Rodrigo. While at Leeds Jonathan also
studied North Indian classical music for a time with highly
respected sitarist Dharambir Singh. He graduated in 1993 with prizes
for guitar performance and composition, and was awarded the Ricordi
prize for musicianship in 1992 and 1993.
Having studied the classical guitar in the context of a jazz diploma
course, he now felt the need to spend some further time specializing
in classical repertoire, and decided to move to London in order to
study at Trinity College of Music with guitarist and composer
Gilbert Biberian. Biberian's own music frequently combines a
rigorous classical approach with Turkish and other middle Eastern
traditional influences, and was a source of much inspiration in
attempting to comprehend a varied musical background.
In 1994 Jonathan graduated from Trinity with the University of
London's Masters' Degree and was also awarded that year's chamber
music prize.
While a student Jonathan also took part in masterclasses with John
Mills, Benjamin Verdery and Paulo Bellinati, and in 1992 he attended
the Cordoba Festival, where he studied with Cuban composer and
guitarist Leo Brouwer.
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