Education
Jonathan Cole studied composition at King"s College London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal Holloway, University of London.
Jonathan Cole studied composition at King"s College London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal Holloway, University of London.
He has enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the London Sinfonietta who have premiered three pieces and has received commissions from the British Broadcasting Corporation, Nash Ensemble, Radiotelevisione Italiana Orchestra, Turin and the London Symphony Orchestra amongst others His music is widely performed in festivals across the world and has been supported by such figures as Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin and Mark Anthony Turnage. Influenced by Stockhausen and Nono as well as David Lynch and Georges Bataille, his music explores perception and memory in rich and imaginative ways.
2001 - signed exclusive publishing contract with G.Ricordi & company, London 2006 - appointed professor of composition at the Royal College of Music 2008 - appointed composer-in-association with the London Contemporary Orchestra Caught (1998).