Jon

Jonathan Weber maintains a versatile career as a violinist, violist and conductor, performing in multiple genres and venues throughout the United States and abroad. As a classical soloist and chamber musician he has collaborated with Daniel Phillips and Timothy Eddy (Orion String Quartet), flutist Tara O’Connor, oboists Ronald Roseman and Randall Wolfgang, and also the Bach Aria Group. Inspired by the Bach Aria Group, Jon is one of the founding members of the Neue Bach Band, a vocal and instrumental ensemble which specializes in the works of Bach and his contemporaries.
As an active freelancer in the New York area, Jon has performed with numerous orchestras including the Long Island Philharmonic and the DiCapo Opera Theatre Orchestra where he served as concertmaster under the direction of Anton Coppola. Internationally, he has made appearances in Austria, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Israel and Cyprus. Domestically, he has performed coast to coast in venues including Madison Square Garden, the Nassau Coliseum, the Continental Airlines Arena, Carnegie Hall, Weil Recital Hall, Symphony Space, Radio City Music Hall, the Nokia Theatre, The Cutting Room and The Knitting Factory.
Branching away from the classical arena, Jon is currently a member of the fusion band: DBR & THE MISSION (ICM Artists), which is presently touring extensively throughout the United States. He is also one of the founding members of the string quartet: “equation” whose genre spans from the classical to the electronic/experimental. The quartet will make its New York debut in 2007.
During the summer of 2006, Jon served as principal violist of the Hustlers Symphony Orchestra performing with Jay-Z, Beyonce Knowles, Memphis Bleek, Foxy Brown, Pain in Da Ass, and Sauce Money in collaboration with Questlove and the Illadelphonics. These performances marked the "10th Anniversary" of Jay-Z’s debut album: "Reasonable Doubt" and were performed at Radio City Music Hall and the Nokia Theatre. A DVD release of these concerts will arrive in stores in the Spring of 2007. Jon has also had the pleasure of appearing numerous times with tap dancer Savion Glover (Classical Savion), the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Josh Groban, Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake and Palmer), Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, and has also done studio work with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
In November of 2006, Jon appeared in the Picturehouse film: "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus", starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., directed by Steven Shainberg (Secretary), performing as chamber musician alongside film composer Ryan Shore. This film is due out on DVD in May of 2007.
Jonathan Weber is currently a faculty member at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College (CUNY). There he serves as violin/viola instructor, chamber music coach, and music director of the pre-college orchestras.