Pannon Philharmonic

Jonathan Sells graduated from the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House in 2012, after gaining distinctions both at the University of Cambridge (Music and Musicology) and on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was subsequently a Guildhall Artist Fellow.  His awards include the Rose Bowl at the Guildhall Gold Medal, the Prix Thierry Mermod of the Verbier Festival Academy, the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Silver Medal, and the bronze Gottlob Frick Medal.

Operatic roles include Bottom, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Don Alfonso, Count Almaviva, Leporello, Papageno, Der König (Orff Die Kluge), and Rossini’s Bartolo and Figaro, with companies including Opéra de Paris, Opéra de Dijon, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Teatro Real, Madrid and Opernhaus Zürich.  In concert he works regularly with John Eliot Gardiner and William Christie, and has recorded a number of discs with I Fagiolini.  Plans for 2016 include the Matthäus-Passion on tour with John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, and concerts at the Aldeburgh Festival, Regensburg Tage Alter Musik and Leizpig Bachfest with his baroque collective, Solomon’s Knot.

Jonathan Sells is also dedicated to the performance of art song.  He gave his debut recital at Wigmore Hall in 2010, and his debut at the Liederstunden in Bern in 2013, where he will return in February 2016.  He will also sing at ‘Liedrezital Zürich’ with Edward Rushton in the Tonhalle in February 2016.