Jon is a highly skilled vocal teacher, with over ten years of experience of helping students of all ages to discover and develop their voices. He has successfully taught students up to Grade 8, and many of his students have achieved high marks in Grade examinations.
Jon’s professional concert engagements as a soloist have so far included Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, Brahms’ Requiem, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Samson (Harapha), Haydn’s Creation, Nelson Mass and Harmoniemesse, Mozart’s Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle, Stainer’s Crucifixion and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
On the operatic stage, Jon has performed with a number of professional opera companies including Garsington Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, and Opera Up Close, and with semi-professional companies such as Opera South, Surrey Opera and Hampstead Garden Opera.
Jon currently directs two community choirs for adults, ‘The Pleasure Singers’ in Horsham and ‘The North Singers’ in Loxwood, and is assistant director of West Sussex Youth Choirs.
Although Jon is a specialist in classical singing, he enjoys a broad range of music including musical theatre, rock and pop, and is equally happy teaching singing in contemporary styles, having spent his sixth-form years singing and playing guitar in an indie rock band.
