Jonathan Ware
Pianist Jonathan Ware is best known as a vocal accompanist and chamber musician. After a promising beginning to his career in the U.S., he moved to Germany and has been in demand in Europe as both a performer and an educator.
Ware was born in Dallas, Texas. His mother was a pianist and his father a conductor, and when he was little, his parents announced that he would be having piano lessons every Thursday. Ware attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, earning a bachelor's degree and a performer's certificate, and went on to the Juilliard School in New York, where he received a master's degree. Ware performed concertos with the Dallas Symphony and the Mississippi Symphony, and he gave solo recitals in major U.S. cities and in Japan. In the late 2000s decade, Ware began to broaden his activities to lieder accompaniment and chamber music, and that change in his activities entailed an increase in the time he spent in Britain and continental Europe. Ware won a new round of prizes, including the Pianist's Award at the 2011 Wigmore Hall Song Competition in London, and the Pianist's Prize at the Das Lied Competition in Berlin two years later. He has appeared at prestigious venues such as the Aldeburgh Festival, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and Wigmore Hall. Back in the U.S., Ware appeared at the Schubert & Co. event in New York, which presented the complete songs of Schubert in the 2012-2013 season. He has also been heard on radio stations WQXR (New York) and WRR (Dallas).
Ware has appeared as an accompanist on several recordings, including an album of songs by Schubert, Wolf, and Medtner with baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer in 2019, and soprano Elsa Dreisig's recital of songs by Strauss, Rachmaninov, and Duparc the following year. Ware teaches at the Hochschule "Hanns Eisler" and the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. Away from the keyboard, he is an enthusiastic marathon runner.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Poulenc: Les chemins de l'amour, FP. 106 (Transcr. for Cello and Piano) (Musical Moments)
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 16 jun. 2023
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Morgen
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 17 jan. 2020
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beau Soir: Debussy | Satie | Ravel | Poulenc
Maciej Kulakowski, Jonathan Ware
Kamermuziek - Released by 2022 Delphian Records Ltd. on 7 okt. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
This Be Her Verse
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 8 apr. 2022
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Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (Arr. Rose for Cello and Piano) (Musical Moments)
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 24 nov. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Poulenc: Les chemins de l'amour, FP. 106 (Transcr. for Cello and Piano) (Musical Moments)
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 16 jun. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (Arr. Rose for Cello and Piano) (Musical Moments)
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 24 nov. 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Violin Sonatas on Oboe (Arr. for Oboe)
Olivier Stankiewicz, Jonathan Ware
Klassiek - Released by Delphian Records on 28 mei 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert’s Four Seasons: Lieder for Voice & Piano by Franz Schubert
Klassiek - Released by Genuin on 1 mei 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert - Wolf - Medtner
Ludwig Mittelhammer, Jonathan Ware
Klassiek - Released by Berlin Classics on 21 jun. 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
A Portrait: Works by Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Weber & Barber
Emalie Savoy, Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, Jonathan Ware, Matthias Foremny
Klassiek - Released by Genuin on 2 sep. 2016
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Gnossiennes: No.1, Lent (arr. for cello and piano by Maciej Kułakowski)
Maciej Kulakowski, Jonathan Ware
Kamermuziek - Released by 2022 Delphian Records Ltd. on 2 sep. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
On the Road
Jazz - Released by Impromptu Art Collective on 18 dec. 2021
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Beau soir L. 6, CD 84 (arr. for cello and piano by Maciej Kułakowski)
Maciej Kulakowski, Jonathan Ware
Kamermuziek - Released by 2022 Delphian Records Ltd. on 9 sep. 2022
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La plus que lente (arr. for cello and piano by Maciej Kułakowski and Jonathan Ware)
Maciej Kulakowski, Jonathan Ware
Kamermuziek - Released by 2022 Delphian Records Ltd. on 16 sep. 2022
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Pièce en Forme de Habañera, M. 51 (Arr. For Cello by Maciej Kułakowski)
Maciej Kulakowski, Jonathan Ware
Kamermuziek - Released by 2022 Delphian Records Ltd. on 30 sep. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Medtner: Wandrers Nachtlied II
Ludwig Mittelhammer, Jonathan Ware
Klassiek - Released by Berlin Classics on 17 mei 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 378: Rondeau (Arr. for Oboe)
Olivier Stankiewicz, Jonathan Ware
Klassiek - Released by Delphian Records LTD on 14 mei 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Leaving (Live) [feat. Mike Badillo & Glenford Brown]
Moderne jazz - Released by Ware Inc on 16 mrt. 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo