Biography

The scope of Jonathan Norton’s compositions encompasses all manner of creative forms, from beautiful melodic acoustic counterpoint to pulsating electronic figures, to provocative, otherworldly computer music landscapes that move the listener on both visceral and intellectual planes alike.

His works for dance, chamber music, computer music and soundtracks have been heard and performed worldwide in festivals and on television in the United States, Russia, Spain, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, Monaco, Italy, China, Hong Kong, France and Switzerland.

Jonathan has been commissioned by and collaborated with such choreographers as Robert Moses, Amy Seiwert, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, Willy Tsao and the Guangdong Modern Dance Company on projects that premiered in San Francisco, Chicago, London and Hong Kong.

At the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria he was a featured lecturer speaking on computer music and several of his compositions were highlighted and discussed in a live one and a half hour radio broadcast on the German radio station Bayern 4 Klassik.

He attained a Ph.D. in Computer-Based Music Theory from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University and received his Master’s degree in Composition from Northwestern University.

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