Mayer141's profile

Jonathan, the son of the legendary Composer and Co Founder of Indo Jazz Fusion late John Mayer started his musical training at the very early age of 5. His father taught him composition, his grand father the Violin, and he took Piano lessons. By the age of 16 Jonathan found the instrument that would be his life, the Sitar. He started learning from Clem Alford (the first ever European Sitar player) and later from Pandit Subroto Roychowdhury of Senia Gharana and Wajahat Khan (direct descendent of Mia Tansen the Great Musician, one of the nine jewels in Moghul Court of Emperor Akbar).
Jonathan has gained a B.Mus (Hons) at the Birmingham Conservatoire where his studied both Sitar and Composition. His career so far has seen him play with artists such as Dave Stewart, The Smith String Quartet, The Bingham String Quartet, Kumar Bose, Shiv Shankar Ray, Ashok Dutta, Erich Gruenburg, Rohan De Sarem,The Dub Pistols, John Wilson, Bombay Dub Orchestra, Sarah Brightman, I Musici Fiamminghi Orchestra, and Sir Paul McCartney. He has also recorded a solo album for Cooking Vinyl Records. As a composer he has had performances of his orchestral works played at the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham. He has written for Erich Gruenburg, Joji Hattori, his father’s band Indo-Jazz Fusions and for many library music companies. His playing and compositions can be heard on two Nimbus CD’s and two on FMR. Jonathan can also be heard on Sarah Brightmans' Eden and Kevin Spaceys' Beyond the sea.
He has toured extensively with Indo-Jazz Fusions in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the UK. As a soloist Jonathan has performed all over the world including, France, United Arab Emirates, Australia, America, and two very successful tours in India as well as a number of performances for the BBC, which were both warmly praised by the press. Jonathan is also in demand as a session musician and appears regularly on television and radio. In the education field Jonathan has taught A-level music technology and Composition both for London borough of Camden and has taken workshops in Indian music for The Royal Welsh college of Music,County of Suffolk, Live Music Now!, City of Birmingham and 100's in the London area. He also teaches Sitar in Cambridge, London Borough of Newham and privately. Jonathan also often accompanies dancers and has worked with Richard Alston, Sujata Banerjee, Alpana Sen Gupta and Akademi of south asian dance.

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