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Jonathan worked for many years as the Artistic Director of the B.T. Scottish Ensemble playing as Soloist/Director* in some 60 concerts a year. Jonathan has made seven CDs as a Soloist/Director for Virgin Classics including the complete Brandenburg Concertos and Violin Concertos of Bach. This Bach recording now re-released was chosen by Nicholas Anderson as his "modern instruments choice" in the BBC Radio 3 programme Building A Library and featured in the BBC Music Magazine.

Jonathan has appeared as concerto soloist with the Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Guildhall String Ensemble, Orchestra of St John's Smith Square, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, at such venues as the Royal Festival Hall, Fairfield Halls and the Carnegie Hall, New York.

"I have not heard many versions of Schoenberg's expressionist string masterpiece, Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) that have been more polished than the one performed last night by Jonathan Rees's Scottish Ensemble. I have certainly not heard an un-conducted performance of the work that approached the Scottish Ensemble's in balance and integration.

And, from a strictly personal point of view (writing as an addict of this thoroughgoing masterpiece) it's a long time since I heard a performance that so illuminated the shifting moods and colours of the work. Incredibly alert to the dynamics of the work, sensitive to its textures (which, in too many accounts are allowed to accumulate to a state of romantic fog) and wholly committed right through the texture - superb playing - this was a performance suffused with concentration."

Michael Tumelty - Glasgow Herald - R.S.A.M.D.