Jonathan Bloxham begins his tenure as music director of the Luzerner Theater this season conducting Boheme, Dido and Aeneas, and I Capuleti e i Montecchi, having debuted in 2022 with Bluebeard’s Castle. He made his Glyndebourne Festival debut in 2021 with Luisa Miller, also conducting Don Pasquale for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. This is his second season as resident conductor and artistic advisor of the London Mozart Players.
Guest highlights of the 2023-2024 season include NDR Elbphilharmonie, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and a return tour with musicians from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras culminating in a televised concert from the Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg. Last season, Jonathan Bloxham made his Japan debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
After taking up conducting in his mid-twenties, he became assistant at the CBSO, in 2016-2018, under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, assisted Paavo Järvi, who then invited him to conduct the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie on several occasions. Jonathan Bloxham has since conducted orchestras across Europe.
He has recorded CDs with the London Symphony Orchestra (2022) and Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (2021, described as “irresistible” by MusicWeb International). As artistic director of the Northern Chords Festival, he has commissioned young composers such as Vlad Maistorovici, Jack Sheen and Freya Waley-Cohen.
Jonathan Bloxham studied conducting with Sian Edwards, Michael Seal, Nicolás Pasquet and Paavo Järvi. A former cellist, he learned at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and made his concerto debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2012.

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