Jonathan Rathbone

Jonathan Rathbone was a chorister at Coventry Cathedral and choral scholar at Christ’s College Cambridge, where he read mathematics, then studeied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with John Gardner. Whilst there, he wrote a children’s musical called “The Selfish Giant”, and music for “Dog Beneath The Skin” at the Half Moon Theatre with director Julian Sands. He was signed as a song-writer with Noel Gay Music.

He sang with St Bride’s Choir, Fleet Street and the BBC Singers before joining the Swingle Singers in 1984. He was the group's musical director for eight out of twelves years with them, creating most of their arrangements, both a cappella and with orchestra. He has worked with many of the world’s leading musicians including Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio. John Dankworth, Stephan Grapelli, Beatles producer George Martin, and French pop star Etienne Daho.

He has orchestrated for Sir Cliff Richard and Michael Ball and more recently for Katherine Jenkins, Lesley Garrett and Wynne Evans (“Go Compare!”). https://www.jonathanrathbone.co.uk