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Dr. Jonathan Godfrey is one of the most sought-after guitarists in the Tampa Bay region. He first achieved national recognition in the classical guitar world as the grand prize winner of the 2011 Boston GuitarFest International Composition Competition for his Sonatina for guitar solo. Since then, he has concertized on three continents as both a soloist and alongside his soprano wife, Jenny Kim-Godfrey, in their duo Corda Voce. Jonathan also enjoys an equally active career as a composer, orchestrator, and arranger, regularly working across mediums ranging from orchestras to musical theater.

 

Hailed as "A staple of the South Florida music scene," (SunCoast Culture Club), Jonathan has appeared as a concerto soloist with The Florida Orchestra and in over 75 concerts with the orchestra as a session musician. He has been a featured performer with the Sarasota Orchestra, Choral Artists of Sarasota, Key Chorale, ensemblenewSRQ, members of the Jacksonville and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, national equity Broadway tours, Norwegian Creative Studios, and numerous regional and collegiate ensembles. He has accompanied Bernadette Peters, Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens, Ana Isabelle, Robert Davi, Michael Lynche, Capathia Jenkins, and the New York Cantors, among others.

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Jonathan's original commissioned works have been performed in the US, Canada, UK, Serbia, Russia, South Korea, Mexico, and Brazil and span from guitar solos to a banjo concerto (Okeechobee Concerto, 2021). He is published with ClearNote Publications.

 

He holds a Doctor of Music from Indiana University, a Master of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a Bachelor of Music from LaGrange College. His guitar teachers include Ernesto Bitetti, Jason Vieaux, and Philip Snyder. He studied composition with Aaron Travers, P.Q. Phan, and Lee Johnson.

 

Jonathan directs classical and commercial guitar studies at the University of South Florida.

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