Jonathan Stone
Jonathan enjoys a busy international schedule of concerts as a member of the Doric String Quartet. Now in its 12th season, the Quartet regularly performs at major festivals and venues throughout the UK as well as abroad in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. In 2008 they won 1st prize in the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan, 2nd prize in the Premio Paolo Borciani Competition in Italy, where they also received a special mention for their performance of Haydn, and the Ensemble Prize in the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, donated by the Nordmetall-Foundation. Their debut recording of Haydn quartets on the Wigmore Hall Live label became Editors Choice in both Gramaphone and Classic FM magazines. 2011 will see the release of the complete quartets of Korngold and Walton as the beginning of a long term project with Chandos Records.
Jonathan is the violinist of the Phoenix Piano Trio, with Sholto Kynoch and cellist Marie Macleod. In 2011, the Trio will perform a series of Beethoven’s complete trios, also commissioning five new works, in various venues.
In 2009, Jonathan gave recitals with Sholto Kynoch in London and Oxford as part of the complete Beethoven Violin Sonata series. He is Co-Artistic Director of the Bedford Chamber Music Festival and teaches the violin and viola at Brunel University.
Jonathan started serious tuition on the violin with David Angel of the Maggini String Quartet. He then attended the classes of Grigory Zhislin at the Royal College of Music where he won numerous prizes for his work in chamber music. After obtaining his degree and leading the RCM’s orchestras and ensembles both on tour and live on BBC Radio 3, he started working with the UK’s top orchestras. In 2003, Jonathan was awarded a scholarship to study with Howard Davis at the Royal Academy of Music where he received not only the D M Lloyd and Paton awards but also the conservatoire’s highest award for performance, the DipRAM.