Jonathan Bloxham

Music Director Luzerner Theater
Conductor in Residence and Artistic Advisor London Mozart Players

Jonathan Bloxham begins his tenure as Music Director of the Luzerner Theater this season, conducting La bohème, Dido and Aeneas and I Montecchi e I Capuleti, after 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 23/24 include NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and a return tour with The Philharmonic Brass, consisting of musicians from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, culminating in a televised concert from the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg. Last season he made his Japan debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.

After taking up conducting in his mid-20’s, Jonathan became Assistant Conductor at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 2016 – 18 under Mirga Gražynite-Tyla, assisted Paavo Järvi, and was invited to conduct the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen on several occasions. He has since conducted orchestras across Europe.

He has recorded albums with the London Symphony Orchestra (2022) and Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (2021, Strauss and Cesar Franck), described as “irresistible” by Musicweb International.  

Artistic Director of the Northern Chords Festival, he has commissioned young composers such as Vlad Maistorovici, Jack Sheen and Freya Waley Cohen. Jonathan studied conducting with Sian Edwards, Michael Seal, Nicolas Pasquet and Paavo Järvi, after having learnt the cello at the Menuhin School and at Guildhall.  A former cellist, he made his concerto debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2012.