Players & Singers

Jonathan Rees
Cello / Viol / Viola da Gamba

Jon has performed across the globe as cellist and gamba player with the Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Dunedin Consort, The Sixteen, ENO, Britten Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata and Solomon's Knot – as well as with La Nuova Musica. 

He has performed with the viol consorts Fretwork and Phantasm and is a founder member of Newe Vialles. As a chamber musician and soloist he has performed at the Wigmore Hall, London Baroque Festival, at the York, Lammermuir, Hastings and Bristol Early Music Festivals amongst others, and venues across Europe. 

He has given historical performance classes at the leading UK music colleges. He has been employed by the University of Cambridge as a researcher into 17th-century French street song. He has devised and led music workshops and children's concerts, and directed and performed at Bristol's Really Classical Relay. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. 

Outside of the world of music he spends a lot of his time making compost and growing plants for the sustenance of humans, bees, butterflies and even the odd lucky greenfly.