Jonathan Woody
Bass-Baritone

Bass-baritone Jonathan Woody, a native of Upper Marlboro, MD, maintains an active performing schedule as a singer in ensemble, in concert, and on the operatic stage, and specializes in early and new music. Called an "artist worth keeping an eye on" by the Washington Post and noted for "clarity and fire" by the New York Times, Jonathan is a member of the Grammy®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street in New York City and performs regularly with ensembles across the United States including the Clarion Music Society, Musica Sacra, Antioch Chamber Ensemble, Spire Chamber Ensemble and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. He has shared the stages of the Barclays Center, Alice Tully Hall & Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Walt Disney Concert Hall with such groups as the New York Philharmonic, the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec, Montreal's Theatre of Early Music, the Washington Bach Consort, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Cathedral Choral Society, the Gentlemen of St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, and Washington's Bach Sinfonia.

During the 2012-2013 concert season he collaborated with the Denver Early Music Consort, New York's TENET, Brooklyn Baroque, Mark Morris Dance Group, Austin's Ensemble VIII and the Rolling Stones. In recent seasons, Jonathan has been seen on the operatic stage as Un Ami in Milhaud's Le Pauvre Matelot, as the Sorceress in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, as Claudio in Handel’s Agrippina and as Escamillo in Peter Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen. Jonathan has performed in productions with the Santa Fe Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, Pocket Opera of New York, Opera McGill, the Washington National Opera, the Washington Concert Opera, Opera Lafayette and the Wolf Trap Opera Company. In 2012, he was awarded Honorable Mention in the Seventh Biennial Bach Vocal Competition for American Singers in Bethehem, PA and in 2013 he was selected as the Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival in Carmel, CA. Jonathan earned a B.Mus in Vocal Performance from the University of Maryland, College Park and completed an M.Mus in Early Music at McGill University in 2010 as a student of Sanford Sylvan. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.