Jonathan Sells

Jonathan Sells is a concert and opera singer, artistic director and conductor. The British-Swiss bassbaritone has performed in some of the world’s most famous concert halls, including the Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, collaborating with, among others, William Christie, John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Roger Norrington and Frieder Bernius. He has appeared on the opera stage at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Zurich Opera, among others. After studying music and musicology at the University of Cambridge and singing and opera at the Guildhall School in London, Jonathan Sells attended the International Opera Studio in Zurich. In 2008, Sells founded the British collective Solomon’s Knot, a group that performs music from the 17th and 18th centuries with an innovative programming approach. The ensemble does without a conductor and sings from memory in order to communicate the special power of the music as directly as possible.