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JONATHAN BERMAN
Franz Schmidt Symphony Cycle
Symphony Nr.1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
ACCENTUS Music
Release date : 26 Mar 2021

​The first release  in a cycle of all 4 symphonies by Franz Schmidt with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conduced by Jonathan Berman  

​Jonathan Berman

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JONATHAN BERMAN
performs Franz Schmidt's Symphony Nr.1 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC Radio 3 
Tuesday 16th Feb 2021, c.15.00
LISTEN HERE
​Jonathan Berman

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JONATHAN BERMAN - ONLINE 
Postcards From Vienna
The Austrian Cultural Forum presents a mini-documentary series by British conductor Jonathan Berman
1. Johannes Brahms. Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 1
2. Gustav Mahler.  Rückert-Lieder
3. Joseph Haydn. Piano sonata in E flat No. 59
4. Arnold Schoenberg. Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 
10 feb - 10 Mar  2021
Postcards From Vienna
​Jonathan Berman

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JONATHAN BERMAN
films for GREENGAGE nominated for the Palm Beach International Awards
​Jonathan Berman

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JONATHAN BERMAN
wins for GREENGAGE a Highly Commended for his Cinematography for
'Historiae de divini // Tales of the Divine'  
in David Taylor's Classical Music Digital Awards 2020
MORE HERE 
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JONATHAN BERMAN
2nd week with the  
​Orchestra simfonică şi Filarmonicii "George Enescu"​, Bucharest
Brahms Haydn Variations and Mozart S.40 
​Dec 2020

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JONATHAN BERMAN
Returns to the  
​Orchestra simfonică şi Filarmonicii "George Enescu"​, Bucharest
Beethoven Symphony Nr.8 & others
​Dec 2020
​More  here
online now

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JONATHAN BERMAN - ONLINE 
Postcards From Vienna
a mini-documentary presented by British conductor Jonathan Berman, is like going to four private recitals in four days, all with your very own expert guide, and then coming together to talk about it on the fifth day.
1. Johannes Brahms. Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 1
2. Gustav Mahler.  Rückert-Lieder
3. Joseph Haydn. Piano sonata in E flat No. 59
4. Arnold Schoenberg. Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 
09-13 November 2020
Postcards From Vienna
​Jonathan Berman

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JONATHAN BERMAN - ONLINE 
After the success of Bach's Goldberg Variations, Jonathan returns to the role of movie curator, director and editor in a series of striking films for Greengage Ventures.  ... and he returns to the podium in Stravinsky and Satie conducting a hand picked ensemble of some of London's finest.  Oct-Nov 2020
​Jonathan Berman
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Sir Simon Russell Beale, narrator
"The worldwide web has been swarming with filmed online concerts since lockdown began, but none that I’ve seen so far has tried to use the video medium in a creative way—until the preview of The Goldberg Variations: Meditations on Solitude came my way on Thursday. ...  the brainchild of director and conductor Jonathan Berman."
Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph

To view The Goldberg Variations: Meditations on Solitude, visit greengageventures.com on May 31. Performance released at 5.00pm. Tickets required. Available for 30 days.

JONATHAN BERMAN  has very successful presented words & music together on the orchestral platform.  Here he has curated, directed and produced Bach's Goldberg Variations interwoven with texts narrated by Sir Simon Russell Beale in an extended meditation on solitude.  

Narrated by Sir Simon Russell Beale
Performed by Ysaÿe Trio

Photographic art by Kristina Feldhammer
Artistic Director Jonathan Berman


An exclusive preview of followed by live Q&A with the director and artists Wednesday 27th of May at 7pm BST and with repeat show on 31st May - 

Thin aid of The  Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain.

Preview HERE
Press Release HERE 
Reserve your seat HERE ​

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STAND TOGETHER MUSIC

https://standtogethermusic.com/


Listen to music that supports living artists whose work has been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.

In times of crisis we must work together to protect what we care about the most.
Our aim is to support the music industry in three ways.​
1. Encourage listeners to think more consciously about how they are consuming music over the coming months.
2. Make it easier for musicians to locate different types of support available to them.
3. Make it easy for those who care (and who can) to donate to a range UK charities supporting and protecting musicians.
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JONATHAN BERMAN
The Franz Schmidt Project has been set up by Jonathan Berman to record all four of Schmidt’s symphonies with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. These will form the backbone of a far reaching project to perform and promote the music of Franz Schmidt leading to his 150th Birthday in 2024.
​Jan 2020
jonathan berman - the franz schmidt project

JONATHAN BERMAN

Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, Op. 55

mvmt II

​Dec 2019 

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JONATHAN BERMAN
makes a welcome return to Latvia to conduct the Sinfonietta Riga in : 

Webern Langsamer Satz
Wagner (Mottl) Wesendonck Lieder  
(soloist, Mezzo Zanda Švēde)                  
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Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, Op. 55

Dec 2019 


left : Jonathan in Riga on Beethoven from 2018 .... 

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JONATHAN BERMAN  conducts the New European Ensemble on NPO Radio 4 in a wide-ranging portrait of one of the UK’s most iconic composers Mark-Anthony Turnage, including his new violin concerto Romanian Rhapsody as well as his epic monodrama Twice Through the Heart along with works by Henze and Oliver Knussen 
Henze, Hans Werner - L'amour à mort ; Sonata
Knussen, Oliver - Processionals
Turnage, Mark-Anthony - Romanian rhapsody
Turnage, Mark-Anthony - Twice through the heart

https://www.nporadio4.nl
Oct 2019
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JONATHAN BERMAN conducts the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra in a programme of John Adams and contemporary Lithuanian composer Loreta Narvilaitė at the Klaipėda Concert Hall
​Sep 2019
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JONATHAN BERMAN conducts the New European Ensemble in a programme of Mark-Anthony Turnage, including a world premiere, at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
Oct 2019
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JONATHAN BERMAN conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Music of Today: Gérard Pesson at the London Southbank Centre
​Oct 2019
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JONATHAN BERMAN Conducts the ORCHESTRE DE PICARDIE in Mozart, J.S. Bach, and Matton, in three concerts at Hirson, Compiègne, and Amiens
May 2019
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JONATHAN BERMAN Conducts the ORCHESTRA DI PADOVA E DEL VENETO in Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky at the AUDITORIUM POLLINI in Padova
April 2019
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JONATHAN BERMAN Conducts the LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA at the ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL in Knussen, Mozart, Ives, and Stravinsky
April 2019
​More here

JONATHAN BERMAN
Conducts the ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC MANSON ENSEMBLE in a selection of Thorvaldsdottir works along with a premiere of a piece by Academy composer Geoffrey King at the DUKE'S HALL, RAM, as part of the ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR FESTIVAL, Feb 2019
​More here

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… gave the composer’s intentions with absolute assurance and no little conviction, guided with evident precision by Jonathan Berman, a conductor demonstrably in the lineage of David Atherton and Oliver Knussen in terms not just of realising the score but interpreting it such that its essence was made readily perceptible to those listening. 
classicalsource.com
London Premiere of Tanz/Haus by James Dillon 
London Sinfonietta, QEH Southbank, London, Jan 2019 
​More  here

JONATHAN BERMAN
Debut with Orchestra simfonică şi Filarmonicii "George Enescu"​, Bucharest
Richard Wagner 
Preludiu și moartea Isoldei
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Suita Concertino pentru fagot și orchestră
Richard Wagner Murmurul pădurii din Siegfried
Claude Debussy Nocturne
​Jan/Feb 2019
​More  here

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conducts the LONDON SINFONIETTA in JAMES DILLON and OLIVER KNUSSEN tribute at the QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, SOUTHBANK, LONDON
Oliver Knussen Coursing
James Dillon Tanz/haus : triptych (London premiere

Jan 2019 
​More  here

Events

2020

Jan - BBC National Orchestra of wales
Franz Schmidt Symphony Nr.1
Mar - Nash Ensemble 
Knussen-Mark Anthony Turnage
Apr  - Orchestra simfonică şi Filarmonicii "George Enescu"​, Bucharest
Schmidt-Rachmaninov-Bruckner
Apr - London Sinfonietta
Takemitsu 
2019

Jan - London Sinfonietta
Knussen - James Dillon
Feb  - Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble 
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Festival
Feb  - Orchestra simfonică şi Filarmonicii "George Enescu"​, Bucharest
Wagner Prelude & Liebestod - Debussy Nocturnes
Apr - London Philharmonic Orchestra 
Knussen - Mozart - Ives - Stravinsky
Apr - Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Shostakovich - Tchaikovsky
May - Orchestre de Picardie
Mozart - Bach - Matton - Mozart 
Sep - Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
John Adams
Oct - Philharmonia Orchestra - Southbank
Music of Today - Gerard Pesson
Oct - New European Ensemble - Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Nov - Sinfonietta Riga
Wagner - Beethoven
                                             

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Jonathan returns to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra  with a programme of Brahms, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky
June 2018
More  here, RTE here

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JONATHAN BERMAN
THE JOURNEY - Schumann's Symphony Nr.3 'Rhenish' with  the Southbank Sinfonia at the new Bridge Theatre, London , April 2018
More  
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Jonathan conducts the Southbank Sinfonia at the St John's Waterloo.
BERLIOZ Cléopâtre
SCHUMANN Symphony No.3 'Rhenish'
Justina Gringytė Mezzo Soprano
Jonathan Berman Conductor
15 March 2018, 18:00
​More  here

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Jonathan conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a programme of Ryan Wigglesworth, John Woorlich and Alexander Goehr - broadcast on BBCRadio 3 Hear & Now - Sat 17 Feb 2018 22:30
More  here,  Listen Online here

A Letter from America
Jonathan Berman & the Kempinski Young Artist Programme 
Read Jonathan's personal reflection
here.

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Meet the Maestro
Jonathan was recently interviewed by Rhinegold Classical Music magazine, after his success in London and Amsterdam at performing with Ensemble Modern. In the article, Jonathan talks about how having mentors at the start of his career was hugely important and helped to increase his chances of sucess. The article is also available on Rhinegold's website, which you can find
here.​

JONATHAN BERMAN
conducts the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra in the premiere of Vykintas Baltakas' Commentum, at the Gaida Festival in Vilnius, Oct 2016

JONATHAN BERMAN
conducts the world premiere of Schuller's Magic Trumpets at the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Centre, July 2015
JONATHAN BERMAN
conducts the LONDON SINFIONIETTA in XENAKIS at London's Kings Place
Nov 2018 
​More  here

JONATHAN BERMAN
BĒTHOVENA ASTOTĀ SIMFONIJA UN STRAVINSKA DEJAS
Jonathan debuts with Sinfonietta Riga
Nov 2018
More  here

JONATHAN BERMAN
conducts the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong 

Webern -  Langsamer Satz
Mendelssohn - Concerto for Violin
(soloist Kirill Troussov)
Brahms -  Serenade No.2
Hong Kong City Hall, Sept 2018 More  here

JONATHAN BERMAN
interview on Beethoven's 8th Symphony, performed with the Riga Sinfonietta, Nov 2018

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conducts the NEW EUROPEAN ENSEMBLE in their
GUBAIDULINA FESTIVAL 
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ & 
Dag in de Branding Festival

 Oct 2018 More  here

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On BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

​More  here
Rimsky-Korsakov: 
Piano Concerto in C# minor, op. 30
Alexander Ghindin (piano)
​Listen here 
Pelle Gundmumsen-Homgreen:
Tricolore IV
Listen here



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Jonathan conducts the Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble in a programme celebrating Sir Harrison Birtwistle, RAM Composer in residence
May 2018
More  here, RAM here

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Jonathan conducts the London Sinfonietta at the London EAR Festival.
Programme includes : 

Toru Takemitsu Quatrain II
Gabriele Cosmi Musica per cinque strumenti (world premiere)
Christopher Fox Caoineadh (world premiere)
Yûta Bandoh Bubbles I (2017) for 5 players (world premiere)
Franco Donatoni L’Ultima Sera
Hilary Summers soprano
London Sinfonietta
22 March 2018

​More  here

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Jonathan conducts the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra  in
Different Colors, a programme of Debussy, Mozart and Franz Schmidt's Symphony Nr.4
I Solisti Della Scala, soloists
03 March 2018 
More  here

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JONATHAN BERMAN debuts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Stepping in at the short notice for an indisposed Ryan Wigglesworth, Jonathan Berman makes his debut with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on 31st Jan in a programme curated by Huw Watkins, BBC NOW Composer-in-Association.
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Alexander Goehr - Sinfonia
John Woolrich - Concerto for Oboe ( Nick Daniels, oboe)
Huw Watkins - Trio
Ryan Wigglesworth - ‘Clocks’ from A Winter's Tale

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More  here

JONATHAN BERMAN 
conducts the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in Grieg, Williams, and others in Dublin, Nov 2017

JONATHAN BERMAN
conducts the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra in Schumann's Symphony Nr. 2 and Lindberg's Chorale, March 2017
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