Norwalk Concert Hall
Norwalk City Hall, 125 East Ave, Norwalk, CT

Norwalk Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Yates, conductor

The Choirs of St. Paul’s on the Green and the Southern Connecticut Camerata
Vince Edwards, director

featuring soloists from the
Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and the
Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at Juilliard

Mendelssohn St. Paul, Op. 36 (excerpts)
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Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

Norwalk Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Yates, conductor

The Seabury Academy Choir
Vince Edwards, director

The Pivot Ministries Choir
Kevin Adams, director

John Rutter Colors of Christmas

Bruce Healey Three Chanukah Songs

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1098

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (excerpts)

Holiday Gospel Songs and a Holiday Sing-Along!

Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and Norwalk Youth Symphony
Jonathan Yates, conductor

James Naughton, Narrator

Rossini Overture to William Tell

Winner, Norwalk Symphony 2013 Concerto Competition

Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf

Norwalk Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Yates, conductor

The Choir of Christ and Holy Trinity Church of Westport
Michael Burnette, director

Ryu Goto, violin
Amelia Watkins, soprano
Matthew Singer, baritone

Fauré Requiem in D minor, Op. 48
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Brahms Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Jonathan Yates

 He has earned high praise as a conductor, solo pianist and collaborative artist for his musicianship, intellect and the remarkable variety of his musical endeavors. He made his professional orchestral conducting debut at 23, leading  the National Symphony Orchestra in a Millennium Stages Concert. The following year he made his Carnegie Hall debut as a pianist in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop. He recently made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut as the  Music Director of the Norwalk Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Jonathan serves as the founding Music Director of Camerata Notturna, one of New York City’s most exciting young chamber orchestras. In that capacity, he has collaborated with some of the country’s most respected musicians, including Kim Kashkashian, David Finckel, Colin Carr, Gilbert Kalish and William Purvis, and given local and regional premieres of preeminent composers including Augusta Read Thomas, Huang Ruo, Zhou Long, Chester Biscardi, and Chen Yi. Indeed, as an ardent devotee of the music of our time, he has conducted new music concerts with the  Argento Chamber Ensemble and the Knights, and was the recipient of an ASCAP award for adventurous programming. Last season he, the clarinetist Charles Neidich, and Camerata Notturna presented a 102^nd birthday tribute to Elliot Carter that featured the New York premiere of Mr. Carter’s Sound Fields, with the composer in attendance. Under the guidance of Yo-Yo Ma, he was also a participant in the Silk Road Ensemble’s Tanglewood Workshops. Highlights of Jonathan’s ample operatic experience have included leading the world premiere of Michael Webster’s opera Hell at Performance Space 122, as well as conducting Orfeo ed Euridice and Paride ed Elena of Gluck at the California Music Festival.

He has been heard as a chamber musician at the 92nd Street Y, Miller Theater, Bargemusic and Merkin Hall, as well as at the Caramoor Festival and on the Ravinia Festival Rising Stars Series. He has performed as a concerto soloist with orchestras in North America, Europe and Asia, and has given solo recitals for the La Jolla Music Society, at the National Museum of American History (on fortepiano), and on the University of Chicago Concert Series. He served as Apprentice Conductor of the Chicago Youth Symphony, and for two years as Music Director of the Harvard University Bach Society Orchestra. As a past and founding member of the Amelia Piano Trio, he was presented by Isaac Stern in Weill Recital Hall and at Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan, and was a finalist for the Walter F. Naumburg Chamber Music Prize.

Jonathan received his Graduate Diploma in conducting from the Juilliard School, where he studied with James DePreist and Otto-Werner Mueller, and was the holder of the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship. He received his Master of  music from State University of New York, where he worked with Gilbert Kalish, and his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Levin. He currently serves on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, where he conducts the orchestra and teaches Italian, French and German Vocal Diction.