Jonathan Swensen

Jonathan Swensen is the recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant and was featured as Musical America’s “New Artist of the Month” and “One to Watch” in Gramophone Magazine. He is playing his debuts the coming season in Carnegie Hall doing a Solo Cello Program he is very passionate about, and in Wigmore Hall doing a duo program with Marianna Shirinyan. His debut recording, Fantasia, received rave reviews from Gramophone, BBC Music, Musical America and The Strad. He has performed with the orchestras in Europe, the UK and the US, and made critically acclaimed debuts at the Kennedy Center in 2019, Merkin Concert Hall, Jordan Hall, Morgan Library and Museum, Vancouver Recital Society, San Francisco Performances and the Krannert Center. Swensen joined the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2024 and played his Alice Tully Hall debut this past season.