Jonathan Leibovitz

"...Leibovitz is a passionate communicator, mastering these showy, virtuosic variations with ease and fluency. He slipped easily from being centre-stage as an expressive soloist, to blending with the ensemble showing a new warm and sensitive tone, allowing solo violin melodies in particular to glow and project..."

Classic Melbourne / Bendigo Chamber Music Festival / February 2023

Jonathan Leibovitz is a multi award winning clarinettist. In 2022, he was a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Artists Guild joint International Auditions and was named as Classic FM ‘Rising Star’. He was the recipient of the prestigious Arthur Waser Foundation and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Award, and was announced as a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Artist 2024.

He frequently gives recitals globally, including most recently at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Konzerthaus Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall. Highlights of Jonathan’s 2024/25 season include his debut with the Munich Symphony, and performances at the Münster Neue Namen Series and with the Kaleidoscope Ensemble in the UK.

In February 2025 Jonathan joined a stellar ensemble of YCAT artists past and present for a European Tour celebrating the charity’s 40th anniversary, performing at some of Europe’s most prestigious halls.

Jonathan’s debut album ‘Eastern Reflections’ was released in August 2024 on Delphian Records, and was recorded alongside violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux and pianist Joseph Havlat.

An avid chamber musician Jonathan founded the Avir Wind Quintet, and has collaborated with the ‘Mietar Ensemble’, Israeli Contemporary Players and Quatuor Agate among others, including performances at prestigious festivals including Verbier Festival, Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Crusell, Rauna and Hauho Festivals in Finland.

In recent seasons Jonathan has performed in concerto with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Košice, London Mozart Players and Jyväskylä Sinfonia. He has also previously appeared as soloist with the Ostrobothnian Chamber, Lapland Chamber and Kuopio Symphony Orchestras working with conductors including Elena Schwarz, Adrien Perruchon and Tung-Chieh Chuang.

Jonathan is also extremely grateful to Andrea König for her support during his time with YCAT.

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Press reviews

"Leibovitz is a passionate communicator, mastering these showy, virtuosic variations with ease and fluency. He slipped easily from being centre-stage as an expressive soloist, to blending with the ensemble showing a new warm and sensitive tone, allowing solo violin melodies in particular to glow and project."

Classic Melbourne / Bendigo Chamber Music Festival / February 2023

"Bringing plenty of colour and agility to Spohr’s Fantasia and Variations on a Theme of Danzi, Leibovitz effortlessly negotiated its extremes of range, while riding its waves of tender lyricism and high romantic drama."

The Age Melbourne / Bendigo Chamber Music Festival / February 2023

"From the very first note, there is a great artist on stage. He plays for the orchestra, not the other way around… It is one of those moments when the music plays itself, thanks in no small part to the way the soloist interacts with the orchestra….it is not only the technique that impresses. Everything sounds smooth and played with care, as it only sounds when a musician has really made a piece his own."

Luzerner Zeitung / KKL Lucerne Symphony Orchestra: Copland Concerto / November 2022

Contact

To book Jonathan please contact

UK and Europe:

Etta Dainty – Senior Artist Manager [email protected]

Joe Linton - Assistant Artist Manager [email protected]

0207 379 8477

North America

Tim Mar - Chief Operating Officer & Director of Artist Strategy, Concert Artists Guild [email protected]

212-333-5200 ext. 1002

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