Jonathan Woody

Bass-baritone Jonathan Woody is a versatile and dynamic musician who maintains an active schedule as a performer and composer in New York and across North America. Cited by the Washington Post for singing “with resonance and clarity,” Jonathan Woody is in demand as a soloist, appearing regularly with historically informed orchestras including Boston Early Music Festival, Apollo’s Fire, Pacific MusicWorks, Bach Collegium San Diego, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and New York Baroque Incorporated. In the 2021-2022 season, he served as Artistic Advisor for the Portland Baroque Orchestra, curating a program of 17th-century German music for voices and orchestra. He last appeared with Music of the Baroque in March 2025.

In recent seasons, Jonathan Woody has appeared at the Staunton Music, Portland Bach, Carmel Bach, and Oregon Bach festivals; the American Bach Soloists Academy; and at the Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings. He has recently performed in collaboration with Kaleidoscope Ensemble, Les Délices, Seraphic Fire, Byron Schenkman and Friends, and TENET Vocal Artists. He has also been seen on the operatic stages of Opera Lafayette, American Opera Projects, and Beth Morrison Projects.

Jonathan Woody’s compositional voice blends 17th- and 18th-century inspiration with the minimalism and socially conscious subject matter of today. Since 2020, he has received commissions from Apollo’s Fire; the Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Chanticleer; the Handel & Haydn Society; the Cathedral Choral Society of Washington, D.C.; and the Five Boroughs Music Festival, among others.

Jonathan Woody can be heard on the Choir of Trinity Wall Street’s GRAMMY-nominated recording of Israel in Egypt, released in 2013 on the Musica Omnia label, as well as ACRONYM’s Cantica Obsoleta (Olde Focus Recordings), Boston Early Music Festival’s St. Matthew Passion (RadioBremen), New York Polyphony’s Roma Æterna (BIS Records), and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street’s Missa Gentis Humanae (Musica Omnia).

Jonathan Woody is committed to racial equity in the field of the performing arts, and currently serves on Early Music America’s Task Force for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. Presently living on traditional Lenape lands now known as Brooklyn, NY, he holds degrees from McGill University and the University of Maryland, College Park.