Even as a high school student in South Carolina, Jonathon Heyward dreamed of leading an American orchestra. He wanted to make concerts “more welcoming and homey” and “a fun and enjoying experience for both the musicians on stage and the audience below.” Thirteen years...
Jonathon Heyward is “One to Watch” on Bloomberg’s prestigious Bloomberg 50 List. The annual list features leaders of business, politics, science and technology, finance and entertainment who have made major global impact and have “defined the year 2022”. Bloomberg...
Conductor Jonathon Heyward has been awarded the “Young Talent Award” by the 2020/21 UK Critics’ Circles Music Awards for triumphantly overcoming the hardships and challenges of the last two years and making significant breakthroughs in his career. Guy Rickards from...
Symphony Review: A dazzling evening of music old and new by the SLSO The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra presented an utterly dazzling evening last Friday and Saturday (October 7 and 8). As usual, their program treated us to unfamiliar pieces before diving into the pièce...
New Conductorships Signal Change in the Orchestral World Baltimore Symphony CEO Mark Hanson is thrilled to have found Jonathon Heyward. “Once chemistry is discovered, things can happen very quickly. Jonathon made his BSO debut in March substituting in a program of...
