Jonathan Cohen, conductor and harpsichord

Conductor, cellist and keyboardist Jonathan Cohen is the new Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society, in addition to continuing as Artistic Director of Arcangelo, Music Director of Les Violons du Roy, and Artistic Director of Tetbury Festival. During the 2023–24 season he guest conducts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, and Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorhcester. In his first season as their new Artistic Director, Cohen leads the Handel & Haydn Society in Baroque masterpieces including Handel’s Israel in Egypt and Messiah. He conducts further performances of Messiah with San Francisco Symphony, while projects with Les Violons du Roy include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and a US tour with Milos Karadaglic. Cohen founded Arcangelo in 2010; the ensemble was the first named Baroque Ensemble in Residence at Wigmore Hall, where it enjoys a continuing close association, and has toured to exceptional halls and festivals. Arcangelo’s founding commitment to the recording studio has produced 28 critically lauded albums.