His works have been performed in the United States and Europe by established and emerging artists alike, with recent commissions by the Lyric Chamber Society, the American Guild of Organists, and the Dallas Harp Quartet. His work Transient Bodies, commissioned by the New Juilliard Ensemble, was awarded the 2017 Juilliard Palmer Dixon Prize, given to the year’s most outstanding composition. He has also received recognition from the Minnesota and Sioux City Symphony Orchestras for his orchestral work reAwaken. Jonathan’s primary teachers include Robert Beaser and Justin Dello Joio. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellows Program at The Juilliard School.