Jonathan Davis

Dr. Jonathan Davis has recorded on over 50 major motion pictures, including The Greatest Showman, Moana, Toy Story III, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, and The End of Oak Street. He has toured and recorded with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphony and the San Diego Symphony. He has had the good fortune to play with some of the world’s greatest conductors, from Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa to Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel. Reflecting the diversity of his career, Dr. Davis has played dozens of Broadway shows, including Wicked, Les Miserables, and Ragtime, and chamber music throughout Southern California and the world. Dr. Davis has a B.A. cum laude from Yale University in East Asian Studies, and a MM and a DMA from The Juilliard School. His major teachers were Elaine Douvas, John Ferrillo, and Ronald Roseman. His students have gone on to major conservatories across the United States and careers in music management, musicology, composition, and performance. They have played with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra among others. Dr. Davis has taught at UC Irvine, UCLA, and recently joined the faculty of Arizona State University as their Assistant Professor of Oboe.