Formerly a
musician at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jon Tolansky specialises in
making documentary features on composers and performers for international radio
organisations and recording companies.
These have included the BBC, Classic FM, the WFMT Radio Network, the
CBC, Radio International, EMI Classics,
the Decca Music Group, and VAI Records.
As an independent producer he has pioneered the first sets of CD series
featuring documentary profiles, in which he has personally recorded artists
such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mirella Freni, Angela Gheorghiu, Carlo Maria
Giulini, Marilyn Horne, Yevgeni Kissin, Antonio Pappano, Luciano Pavarotti,
Ruggero Raimondi, Mstislav Rostropovich, Giuseppe di Stefano, Dame Joan
Sutherland and Jon Vickers discussing their lives, careers and musical
repertoire.
Jon Tolansky
has contributed articles on music and performers to the Oxford Companion to
Music, Cambridge Guide to the Orchestra, Opera House (the magazine of the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden), On Air (the magazine of the BBC World Service),
Avenue Magazine (U.S.), Andante Magazine, Bambill (Brooklyn Academy of Music
publication), Living Music (the magazine of the London Symphony Orchestra), The
Lady, The Gramophone, Opera Magazine, Limelight (the magazine of the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation), Swiss Style Magazine, the Grand Théâtre de
Genève, and Classic Record Collector.
In 2006 he co-wrote the autobiography of the baritone Peter Glossop with
the artist.
Jon Tolansky
has given presentations about performers to international performance
organisations, music colleges and universities. They include the Edinburgh
International Festival, Les Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Cambridge University,
the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire,
the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Opera
House Covent Garden, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lincoln Center
Festival, the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, and Stanford
University. Additionally he sometimes
hosts public interviews with artists preceding their appearances at venues such
as the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre and Royal Opera House Covent
Garden. He conceived and chaired the
'Profile of the Artist' events at the Barbican Centre, a series of live public
interviews with some of the most highly sought after performers of our
time. He organised these for the Music
Performance Research Centre, now called Music Preserved, which he initiated and
co-founded as a unique repository of mostly unduplicated live performance
archive-recordings. He also initiated
and hosted an historical series of interviews with some dozens of major
international performers for the Royal Opera Archives (now called the Royal
Opera House Collections) to celebrate the Verdi Centenary in 2001.
Jon Tolansky
Biography
JON
TOLANSKY
Formerly a
musician at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jon Tolansky specialises in
making documentary features on composers and performers for international radio
organisations and recording companies.
These have included the BBC, Classic FM, the WFMT Radio Network, the
CBC, Radio International, EMI Classics,
the Decca Music Group, and VAI Records.
As an independent producer he has pioneered the first sets of CD series
featuring documentary profiles, in which he has personally recorded artists
such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mirella Freni, Angela Gheorghiu, Carlo Maria
Giulini, Marilyn Horne, Yevgeni Kissin, Antonio Pappano, Luciano Pavarotti,
Ruggero Raimondi, Mstislav Rostropovich, Giuseppe di Stefano, Dame Joan
Sutherland and Jon Vickers discussing their lives, careers and musical
repertoire.
Jon Tolansky
has contributed articles on music and performers to the Oxford Companion to
Music, Cambridge Guide to the Orchestra, Opera House (the magazine of the Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden), On Air (the magazine of the BBC World Service),
Avenue Magazine (U.S.), Andante Magazine, Bambill (Brooklyn Academy of Music
publication), Living Music (the magazine of the London Symphony Orchestra), The
Lady, The Gramophone, Opera Magazine, Limelight (the magazine of the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation), Swiss Style Magazine, the Grand Théâtre de
Genève, and Classic Record Collector.
In 2006 he co-wrote the autobiography of the baritone Peter Glossop with
the artist.
Jon Tolansky
has given presentations about performers to international performance
organisations, music colleges and universities. They include the Edinburgh
International Festival, Les Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Cambridge University,
the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire,
the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Opera
House Covent Garden, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lincoln Center
Festival, the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, and Stanford
University. Additionally he sometimes
hosts public interviews with artists preceding their appearances at venues such
as the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre and Royal Opera House Covent
Garden. He conceived and chaired the
'Profile of the Artist' events at the Barbican Centre, a series of live public
interviews with some of the most highly sought after performers of our
time. He organised these for the Music
Performance Research Centre, now called Music Preserved, which he initiated and
co-founded as a unique repository of mostly unduplicated live performance
archive-recordings. He also initiated
and hosted an historical series of interviews with some dozens of major
international performers for the Royal Opera Archives (now called the Royal
Opera House Collections) to celebrate the Verdi Centenary in 2001.