Jonathan Colbert

DOUBLE BASS

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Born in 1985 in Atlanta Georgia, Jonathan Colbert is a product of the Atlanta Public School System and started playing the double bass in his mother’s middle school orchestra. With the support of his family, Jonathan was encouraged at the age of 15 to study with the Principal Bass of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Ralph Jones. Through this relationship of , guidance, counseling, and professional advisement, his true musical journey began.

Jonathan was a member of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and attended the Interlochen Arts Camp as a recipient of the Emerson Scholarship. After graduating from high school, Jonathan moved to New York to study at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School.

As a college student, Mr. Colbert was invited to play with Atlanta Symphony as substitute. He won positions in the Hartford Symphony and in the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Verbier, Switzerland. Colbert has toured Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and the USA. In 2009 Jonathan played one year with the Kansas city Symphony.

His primary teachers have included Ralph Jones, Principal Bass of the Atlanta Symphony), Timothy Cobb, Principal Bass of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Leigh Mesh, Associate Principal Bass of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Albert Laszlo.

Mr. Colbert is very active in his hometown and plans to continue to help kids from his parents school achieve their goals. in music and continue their education