Dr. Jonathan Davis plays regularly with orchestras throughout Southern California, including the San Diego Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  He has played with Chamber Music Palisades, the Mt. Lowe Chamber Players, Southwest Chamber Music, and was a member of the Northwind Quintet for 20 years.  He is also an active studio player, recording dozens of movies ranging from Spiderman 2 to Moana to Inside Out 2.  Before moving to California, Dr. Davis was a member of the Hartford Symphony and performed with the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and as a soloist on NPR’s Performance Today.

Dr. Davis began his musical training as a soprano in the Choir of Men and Boys at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston under the direction of Thomas Murray. He studied oboe with Fred Cohen at New England Conservatory during high school and continued with Ronald Roseman at Yale University, where he received a B.A. (cum laude) in East Asian Studies and the Lustman Prize. He studied with John Ferrillo and Elaine Douvas at Juilliard, where he earned a MM and a DMA and was awarded the first Stephen Alpert Memorial Scholarship.

Dr. Davis’ students have gone on to careers in musicology, composition, music education, arts management, and, of course, performance.  They have played with, among others, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and on Broadway.