Jonathan Murphy is active as a tenor, pianist, and conductor. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where he was a member of the Knoxville Opera Studio, and the University of Oklahoma, where he was a Weitzenhoffer Opera Fellow. Jonathan currently holds the position of Lecturer of Opera and Collaborative Piano at Georgia Southern University, his undergraduate alma mater. Among Jonathan’s operatic roles are Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride), Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Elvino (La Sonnambula), Ferrando (Cosí fan tutte), Nerone (L’Incoronazzione di Poppea).
As an opera coach, he has prepared roles and operas for performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Dallas Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, and Santa Fe, among others. Among the international artists he has worked with are Samuel Ramey, Leona Mitchell, Robert Hale, Clifton Forbis, Kurt Ollmann, William Powers, and Jay Hunter Morris. Jonathan’s concert work includes Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, and the Requiems of Mozart and Verdi. His 2019 performance as tenor soloist in Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard was broadcast on Michigan Public Radio. Jonathan is a member of the chamber vocal ensemble Servire Chorus.