BIOGRAPHY
Jonathan Woolgar draws from a wide range of musical experience to create work that is communicative without compromise. His award-winning music has been played around the world by performers such as The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as broadcast several times on BBC Radio 3.
NEWS
“Three Dream Songs” wins British Horn Society Composition Prize
My piece for unaccompanied solo horn, Three Dream Songs, has won the British Horn Society Composition Prize 2025. The premiere performance, by the excellent Tommaso Rusconi, coincided with the announcement…
Read More“Imaginary Lover” in Armenia
I’m thrilled that my song cycle for tenor and piano, Imaginary Lover, to texts by Armenian poet Vahan Terian, will be performed again on 19th July in Yerevan, Armenia in…
Read MoreYear in Review: 2024
Some exciting things happened over the last year, from the London premiere of My Lover Spoke at JAM’s season launch concert in March to the world premiere of Movements for…
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WORKS
Movements for Philip Sharp
for solo piano
Duration: 7min. | First perf.: 21st March 2024
Canzoni et ricercari
for string orchestra
Duration: 7min. | First perf.: 23rd November 2023
Symphonic Message: “Wach auf!”
for orchestra
Duration: 8 min. | First perf.: 28th May 2023
Symphonic Message in memory of L. R.
for orchestra
Duration: 11 min. | First perf.: 22nd Sep 2022
Message-Fragments in Honour of Giles Swayne
for solo violin
Duration: 11 min. | First perf.: 1st Feb 2022
JONATHAN WOOLGAR 