Jonathan Woody is a versatile and dynamic musician active as a performer and composer across North America. As a bass-baritone soloist, Jonathan makes regular appearances with Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, New York Baroque Incorporated, and the Washington Bach Consort. Notedas “richly and compellingly embodied” by the Washington Post, Jonathan is also a committed chamber musician, collaborating regularly with Seraphic Fire and the Choir of Trinity Church, both GRAMMY®-nominated ensembles, along with Kaleidoscope Ensemble, Les Délices, the New Consort, Conspirare, and TENET Vocal Artists. Jonathan holds degrees from McGill University and the University of Maryland, College Park.
Recent and upcoming season highlights include the premiere of Morgiane with Opera Lafayette, an 1887 work by New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé, believed to be the earliest composed opera by an African-American, performances of Theodora (Handel) with Music of the Baroque and Dido’s Ghost (Errollyn Wallen) with Emmanuel Music of Boston, and a new completion of the fragmented St. Mark Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach with Music Before 1800, as well as appearances with the 2025 Toronto Bach, Bethlehem Bach and Oregon Bach Festivals. Recording credits include ACRONYM’s Cantica Obsoleta (Olde Focus Recordings), Boston Early Music Festival’s St. Matthew Passion of J. Sebastiani and Circé of H. Demarest (CPO), New York Polyphony’s Roma Aeterna (BIS Records), and the Choir of Trinity Church’s Israel in Egypt and Missa Gentis Humanae (Musica Omnia).