VOCES8 Foundation Advisory Board
Jonathan Dove
Winner of the 2008 Ivor Novello Award for classical music, Jonathan Dove explores what opera can be, and what audiences it can reach.
He has written more than twenty-five operas of different shapes and sizes, which are regularly performed all around the world, including the highly successful airport comedy Flight. Alongside chamber operas and operas for television, he has written operas for a family audience (The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Enchanted Pig, Swanhunter), and works bringing together amateur and professional performers (Tobias and the Angel, The Monster in the Maze).
He has received two RPS Awards, two British Composer Awards, and been Featured Composer in festivals in the UK, Europe and the USA. He was Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival 2001-2006 and Guest Festival Director of the Salisbury Festival in 2019. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's 2019 Birthday Honours for services to music.