World Summit 2009 Presenters: Jonathan Yates

Jonathan Yates has earned high praise as a conductor, solo pianist and collaborative artist for his musicianship, intellect and the remarkable variety of his musical endeavors. He made his professional orchestral conducting debut at 23, leading the National Symphony Orchestra in a Millennium Stages Concert. The following year he made his Carnegie Hall debut as a participant in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop. He has also been heard as a chamber musician at the 92nd Street Y, Miller Theater, Bargemusic and Merkin Hall, as well as at the Caramoor Festival, Music Mountain, and on the Ravinia Festival Rising Stars Series.

He has performed as a concerto soloist with orchestras in North America, Europe and Asia, and has given solo recitals for the La Jolla Music Society, at the National Museum of American History (on fortepiano), and on the University of Chicago Concert Series.. He has collaborated with artists including Gilbert Kalish, Colin Carr, Ida Kavafian, William Purvis, and Gary Hoffman. An ardent devotee of music of our time, he was the recipient of an ASCAP award for adventurous programming. 

Yates received his Graduate Diploma in conducting from the Juilliard School, where he studied with James DePreist and Otto-Werner Mueller, and was the holder of the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship. He received his Masters. of Music from State University of New York, where he worked with Gilbert Kalish, and his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Levin.

He currently serves as as Music Director of the Camerata Notturna, a vibrant young chamber orchestra in New York City, and as conductor of the Sarah Lawrence College Orchestra and the 92nd  Street Y Community Orchestra.