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...

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...

Q&A with conductor Jonathon Heyward   Jonathon Heyward is forging a career as one of the most exciting conductors on the international scene. He currently serves as Music Director Designate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and will begin his five-year...

‘Baltimore is in for an adventure’: Newly named BSO music director Jonathon Heyward makes Lincoln Center debut with ‘rock star’ performance By Mary Carole McCauley NEW YORK — Jonathon Heyward, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s new music director designate, recently...

Five things to know about Jonathon Heyward, the BSO’s newly appointed music director.

Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier Jonathon Heyward is the first person of color to be the orchestra’s music director in its 106-year history. Read the article in full (behind pay wall)

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra names Jonathon Heyward music director. The 29-year-old rising star becomes the first person of color to lead the 106-year-old orchestra.

Jonathon Heyward named BSO music director, replacing Marin Alsop and becoming only Black conductor to helm major U.S. symphony orchestra Jonathon Heyward, the 29-year-old classical music phenom whose skill on the conductor’s podium has generated international...

Conducting Phenom Jonathon Heyward Makes His North American Debut Tour Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Jonathon Heyward took time to sit down with Observer to discuss his ongoing US tour. By Annie Levin Conductor Jonathon Heyward, a rising star in...

Jonathon Heyward revisits childhood fascination with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra By Jon Ross, For the AJC Guest conductor returns to the scene of a memory that had a “profound effect” on his life. Conductor Jonathon Heyward can still see the colors, the brilliant...

Flora Willson gave Jonathon Heyward's BBC Proms debut a glowing five star review in The Guardian. She wrote: “Jessie Montgomery’s Banner provided an equivalent opportunity for Technicolor funk and forward drive, compressing and refracting the Star-Spangled...

SCO, Jonathan Heyward, Ana Quintans & Julien Van Mellaerts, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh ***** This was a high-risk, high-concept concert, shuffling together the five movements of Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and 12 of Mahler’s song settings from Des Knaben Wunderhorn in...

Jonathon Heyward: "Ein Konzertabend ist spannender als Netflix" Jonathon Heyward ist seit 2021 Chefdirigent der Nordwestdeutschen Philharmonie. Wie verändert seine Perspektive das Orchester? Der Dirigent Jonathon Heyward will klassische Musik zugänglicher machen. Denn...

Rising star conductor Jonathon Heyward has earned rapturous acclaim for his BBC Proms debut on 7 August. Leading the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and violinist Nicola Benedetti. The Arts Desk’s Boyd Tonkin applauds, “Heyward’s assured, even audacious,...

Rising star conductor Jonathon Heyward has earned rapturous acclaim for his BBC Proms debut on 7 August. Leading the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and violinist Nicola Benedetti. Nick Breckenfield in Classical Source writes, “What followed was a tremendous...

“This Prom was about Jonathon Heyward, NYOGB and Beethoven. …Heyward’s a man of twenty-nine coolly heading for the stratosphere,” writes Ateş Orga in Collins Column. “Economic in body language, he displays a wiry rhythmic tension in what he does, together with the...

Conductor’s artistic vision for new appointment includes developing local audiences, building compelling programmes and raising orchestra’s global profile Could this really have only been Jonathon Heyward’s first engagement leading the Seattle band? The chemistry...