Jonathan Hess

Jonathan Hess has been praised for his “power and finesse" by the Boston Classical Review and his "exacting milieus" by the Boston Globe. He is the timpanist for the Handel and Haydn Society and has performed with Boston Baroque and Philharmonia Baroque orchestras, A Far Cry, Aston Magna, Grand Harmonie and the Connecticut Early Music Festival. Jonathan is a founding member of the Boston Percussion Group (BPeG) and regularly performs and records with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera. He played drum set for the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus' historic trip through the Middle East and will accompany them again to South Africa this summer. Jonathan teaches percussion at the College of the Holy Cross and is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the Boston Conservatory with extra studies in Ghana with Bernard Woma and Edmund Tijon.