Jonathan received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a Jazz Emphasis from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Jonathan is also a former member of the renowned Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony. He has also had the opportunity to play with Cleveland’s own NeoDixie jazz combo and is a founding member of the Lake Erie Saxophone Quartet and BMONK jazz combo, which has performed at several locations throughout Cleveland. While a student at Baldwin Wallace, he participated in the Concert and Symphonic Wind Ensembles, the BW Sax Quartet, the BW Jazz Ensemble and Jazztet, in which he was a featured soloist and composer, and the BW Beatles. JONATHAN GRIFFIN, Saxophone, Clarinet, Jazz Studies, has performed and soloed at many different venues including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Lakeland Jazz Festival, the Tri-C Jazz Fest, The Brothers Lounge, Case Western Reserve’s Harkness Chapel, and Cleveland State University’s Drinko Music Hall. He and his wife, Svetlana, have three grown children. In 2012 he was nominated for a Grammy Award for teaching. Barber is the author of an article published in the Garland Encyclopedia of Keyboard Music entitled World War II and the American Piano Builders and has also written his own method book, Piano Playing: A Comprehensive Course for the Beginning to Intermediate Level Piano Student. Sebastian Catholic Church (Extraordinary Form Latin Mass). He plays keyboards for the Akron Symphony Orchestra and serves as organist at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, and St. 2 with Anthony Addison and the Heights Chamber Orchestra.
5 (Emperor), an all-Liszt solo recital for the Music under the Spire series held at the Lindsay-Crossman Chapel, Baldwin-Wallace College, and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. Barber has had recent performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. He has made promotional recordings for the Steinway Piano Company, and has served on the piano faculty at Illinois State University, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, and Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and he is currently on the piano faculty at Cleveland State University. He has been active in the Reconnaisance Chamber Ensemble and the Cleveland Composer’s Guild (all new music concerts). 1 with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall. He has played numerous Carnegie Hall recitals in New York and made his major orchestra debut in 1990 performing Alberto Ginastera’s Piano Concerto No. Barber is a pianist of wide-ranging repertory. He has studied with Beryl Ladd, Joseph Schwartz, Jack Radunsky, Gyorgy Sebok, Enrica Cavallo Gulli and Jorge Bolet. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and Master and Doctor of Music degrees from Indiana University. He studied with Andrius Kuprevicius at the Cleveland Music School Settlement. DANIEL BARBER, Piano, is a native Clevelander and a graduate of University School.