Jonathan McPhee has been Music Director and Conductor of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra since 2004 and has established the ensemble’s reputation for intelligent and musical performances, including rarely-heard masterworks. In addition, he has received critical acclaim for shaping the musical style and direction of the Boston Ballet Orchestra.  Mr. McPhee serves as Music Director of Symphony by the Sea in Marblehead, Massachusetts and the Lexington Symphony in Lexington, Massachusetts.  He has conducted such renowned dance companies as the New York City Ballet, The Royal Ballet in London, The National Ballet of Canada, the Australian Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, The Joffrey Ballet and the Dance Theatre of Harlem.  Among the esteemed orchestras he has conducted are the Hague Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, National Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Boston Pops, and the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway.  Recent guest conducting appearances include Massenet's opera, Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame with Opera Boston and the Australian Ballet in Sydney.

Mr. McPhee's arrangements and compositions, published by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., are in the repertoires of ballet companies and orchestras around the world and have been recorded by several orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra.  His editions of Stravinsky's Firebird and Rite of Spring are the only reduced orchestrations of these works authorized by the Stravinsky Estate.

Jonathan McPhee's recording of The Nutcracker with Boston Ballet Orchestra has currently sold over 55,000 copies. He has also recorded Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty and released their latest CD, Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet in 2004.  An educational advocate for music and ballet, his work with WCRB Classical 102.5 on "Kids Classical Hour" resulted in a 1998 Gabriel Award. Mr. McPhee holds a B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School and an L.R.A.M. from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.

Janna Baty, soprano

Janna Baty’s exceptionally versatile career continues to gather momentum. Recent engagements include appearances with the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Daejeon Philharmonic (South Korea), Hamburgische Staatsoper, L’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, Longwood Symphony, Hartford Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (Colombia), Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Eugene Opera, Opera North, and Boston Lyric Opera. She has sung under James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Carl Davis, Robert Spano, Steuart Bedford, Stephen Lord, Stefan Asbury, Christopher Lyndon Gee, Dean Williamson, Gil Rose, David Hoose, Shinik Hahm, and Alexander Mickelthwate, among others. She has appeared with the Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England, The Varna Festival in Bulgaria, the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood and Norfolk festivals in the U.S. Her opera roles range from the Duchess (Powder Her Face) to Alice Ford (Falstaff), to both Anna and Elvira (Don Giovanni), to Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti) and the Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors). Winner of several international competitions, most notably the XXI Concurso Internacional de Ejecución Musical “Dr. Luis Sigall” (Chile), Ms. Baty is also an accomplished recitalist and chamber musician, having given concerts across Europe, the U.S. most recently at The Library of Congress with the Montage Music Society. Ms. Baty has worked alongside many composers, including John Harbison, Bernard Rands, Yehudi Wyner, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Reza Vali, Christopher Lyndon Gee, and Fred Lerdahl on performances of their music. Ms. Baty can be heard with Boston Modern Orchestra Project on Naxos’ critically acclaimed release, Vali: Flute Concerto, Deylaman, Folk Songs Set No. 10; as well as on Chandos’ recording of Lukas Foss’ opera Griffelkin. A third recording with BMOP, featuring Ms. Baty singing John Harbison’s Mirabai Songs, is expected to be released this year. Upcoming engagements include Vali’s Folk Songs with Hartford Symphony, and the world premiere performances and recording of Eric Sawyer’s opera Our American Cousin.

David Juritz, violin  

David Juritz was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where he began violin lessons at the age of six with Noel Travers. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Hugh Bean and Jaroslav Vanecek on scholarships from Associated Board Scholarship and the Leverhulme Trust. Whilst there he won all the top prizes for violin and was the recipient of the college’s highest award, the Tagore Gold Medal.

On leaving college he joined the English Chamber Orchestra who sponsored his South Bank debut at the Purcell Room in 1985. Since then he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in all the major concert halls of the UK as well as performing in North and South America, the Far East, Europe, South Africa and Australia.

In 1991 he was appointed leader of the UK’s longest established chamber orchestra, the London Mozart Players. David works frequently as soloist and director with the LMP and in this role, has given many world premieres including new works by Cecilia McDowall, Geoffrey Burgon, Lynne Plowman and Geoffrey Hanson. He also works as a guest-director with orchestras such as the Ambache Chamber Orchestra, Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Zurich Chamber Orchestra. He is a regular guest leader with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestras as well as leading session orchestras on major films. Recent credits include The Merchant of Venice and The Last King of Scotland.

His recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the London Mozart Players was acclaimed as 'one of the finest interpretations on modern instruments’. In March 2003 Dutton released his world premiere recording of works for violin and piano by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Other recordings include music by George Dyson and Rebecca Clarke on Dutton, quartets by Szymanowski and Schubert with the Maggini String Quartet for ASV, Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending for Collins, Slow Dances, Quiet Passions on Bonus and Louise Talma on Naxos.

In addition to performing, David Juritz writes about issues related to music, contributing articles to The Strad, Double Bassist and Nature and recently presented ’The Asylum Band’ on Radio 4, a programme about the Orchestra of Norfolk Mental Hospital. In 2005 he took over the role of Artistic Director of the Burton Bradstock Festival.

David was a soloist with the London Mozart Players in the 2006 BBC Promenade Concerts. February 2007 saw the first concerts with his new group, The London Tango Quintet, and in June this year, he embarks on a new venture, Round the World and Bach. Over the following four months David will busk his way round the world playing Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. During this journey he will be raising money to set up a new fund, Musequality, which will finance start-up music projects in poor areas. He will be recording the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas in August and a TV film plotting his progress is being planned.

He plays a violin made in Piacenza in 1748 by J. B. Guadagnini.