Born the 26th october 1981 in Belgium, Jonathan got his start with music when he was 4 years old, mostly through instruction from his father, who is an amateur musician.After having performed a flawless run through the music academy in Belgium, he started higher musical studies in the Mons Royal Conservatory. He had successively as teachers: Pierre Liemans, Stephane Ginsburgh, Johan Schmidt and his assistants Yuka Izutsu and Yuko Nomura for piano; Guy Van Waas for chamber music; Daniel Gazon for orchestral sessions, Jean-Luc Fafchamps for analysis and Thierry Smets for harmony; Catherine Van Loo for piano accompaniment; and Xavier Deprez for organ. He is also graduated in psychopedagogy and did specialization in music theory, jazz harmony and improvisation with the jazzman Yves Gourmeur.In 1998, he obtains the post of organist at St. Martin in Thulin, and took up a second post in 2001, at St. Charles in Boussu.Jonathan also plays others keyboards like harpsichord, pianoforte, harmonium, rhodes and synthesizers, and has been involved in chamber music, orchestras, many pop and rock bands, and played with various artists (such as Julie Dumilieu). He composes, arranges music and creates scores for various instruments and vocals combinations up to full orchestra. As a professor of music, he currently teaches in a college.Since 2005, Jonathan is the official keyboardist of Alucard, a romantic rock band made up with dark, passionate and sensual melodies, who combines classical music and rock in the same universe. The band has recently recorded a single with Maestro Producer John Fryer (Depeche Mode, HIM, Nine Inch Nails, Cradle of Filth, ...) at prestigious ICP Studios in Brussels.
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