Jonathan Woody is a versatile and dynamic musician
who maintains an active schedule as a performer and
composer in New York and across North America.
Cited by the Washington Post for singing “with
resonance and clarity,” Woody is in demand as a bassbaritone
soloist, appearing regularly with historically
informed orchestras including Boston Early Music
Festival, Apollo’s Fire, Pacific MusicWorks, Bach
Collegium San Diego, Trinity Baroque Orchestra and
New York Baroque Incorporated. In the 2021-2022
season, he served as Artistic Advisor for the Portland
Baroque Orchestra, curating a program of 17thcentury
German music for voices and orchestra.
An accomplished chamber musician, Woody often
performs as a member of the GRAMMY®-nominated
Choir of Trinity Wall Street, where he has earned praise from the New York Times for his
“charismatic” and “riveting” solos. He has also recently performed in collaboration with
Kaleidoscope Ensemble, Les Délices, Seraphic Fire, Byron Schenkman and Friends, and
TENET Vocal Artists.
Woody’s compositional voice blends 17th and 18th-century inspiration with the minimalism
and socially conscious subject matter of today. Since 2020, he has received commissions
from Apollo’s Fire, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Chanticleer, the Handel and Haydn
Society, the Cathedral Choral Society of Washington, D.C., and the Five Boroughs Music
Festival, among others.
As a sought-after new music proponent, Jonathan has participated in premiere
performances of several leading composers’ works, including Ted Hearne’s The
Source (2014), Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019 Pulitzer Prize-winner), Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking

the Waves (NYC premiere, 2018), and Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone (2017 Pulitzer Prizewinner).
In recent seasons, Woody has appeared at the Staunton Music, Portland Bach, Carmel
Bach, and Oregon Bach Festivals, the American Bach Soloists Academy, and at the
Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings. He has also been seen on the operatic stages of
Opera Lafayette, American Opera Projects, and Beth Morrison Projects. Woody can be
heard on the Choir of Trinity Wall Street’s GRAMMY®-nominated recording of Israel in
Egypt, released in 2013 on the Musica Omnia label, as well as on ACRONYM’s Cantica
Obsoleta (Olde Focus Recordings), Boston Early Music Festival’s St. Matthew Passion of J.
Sebastiani (RadioBremen), New York Polyphony’s Roma Æterna (BIS Records), and the
Choir of Trinity Wall Street’s Missa Gentis Humanae (Musica Omnia).
Jonathan is committed to racial equity in the field of the performing arts, and currently
serves on Early Music America’s Task Force for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access.
Presently living on traditional Lenape lands now known as Brooklyn, NY, he holds degrees
from McGill University and the University of Maryland, College Park.