“Jonathan has provided us with multiple high-quality and creative arrangements over the years, showing a real flair and attention to detail. We would highly recommend him to anyone that requires arranging and orchestration work.”

– Tim Hargreaves
MD and Founder of Big Band Roulette

Arranging & Orchestration

My arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody for Piano Duet performed by the internationally acclaimed Mada & Hugh Piano Duo

A demo recording of my arrangement of Alan Fernie’s Stål Himmel for solo piano

My first composition for voices, written as part of Clare College’s Carol Composition Competition in my first year at university. Kindly recorded by my housemates in late 2020.

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Theatre

London Musical Theatre Orchestra: Sitzprobes
Various Artists – expansions for 51-piece orchestra

Cambridge Footlights Pantomime 2021: Rapunzel
Matthew Mayes – orchestration from PV

Cambridge Footlights Pantomime 2020: Sleeping Beauty
Jonathan Whiting – orchestration from PV

The Man That Got Away from A Star Is Born (as sung by Judy Garland)
Harold Arlen – wind orchestra

What I Know Now from Beetlejuice
Eddie Perfect – expansion for 90-piece orchestra

Once We Were Kings from Billy Elliot
Elton John and Lee Hall – expansion

Stop from Mean Girls
Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin – expansion

Zero To Hero from Hercules
Alan Menken – expansion

38 Planes Reprise / Somewhere from Come From Away
Irene Sankoff and David Hein – expansion

Loud from Matilda
Tim Minchin – expansion

We Both Reached For The Gun from Chicago
John Kander and Fred Ebb – expansion

One Normal Night from Addams Family
Andrew Lippa – expansion

Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat from Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser – expansion

You’re Going Back To Jail from Bonnie and Clyde
Frank Wildhorn – expansion

Big Band

2 Waltz 2 Furious
Dmitri Shostakovich – big band (with opt. strings)

Friend Like Me from Aladdin
Alan Menken – big band with vocal solo

Zero To Hero from Hercules
Alan Menken – big band with vocal duet

Take Me Or Leave Me from RENT
Jonathan Larson – big band with vocal duet

Broadway Medley
various (with Tim Hargreaves) – big band with strings

Mario Medley
various (with Tim Hargreaves) – big band with strings

Footloose
Kenny Loggins (arr. John Berry) – string additions

Function Band

Cooler Than Me
Mike Posner – 10-piece function band (2 vox, 4 horns, 4 rhythm)

Dance With Me Tonight
Olly Murs – 10-piece function band (2 vox, 4 horns, 4 rhythm)

F**k You!
Cee Lo Green – 10-piece function band (2 vox, 4 horns, 4 rhythm)

I Knew You Were Trouble
Taylor Swift – 10-piece function band (2 vox, 4 horns, 4 rhythm)

Runaway Baby
Bruno Mars – 10-piece function band (2 vox, 4 horns, 4 rhythm)

Chamber Music

Disney Ultimate Medley (1937-2017)
various – woodwind doubling quartet or sax quartet SATB

Baker Street
Gerry Rafferty – sax quartet AATB (A1 doubling flute) or sax quintet AAATB (A1 doubling flute)

Careless Whisper
George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley – sax quartet AATB/AATT

Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen – sax quartet SATB/AATB or sax quintet AATTB

Feeling Good
Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse (based on Michael Buble’s version) – sax quartet AATB or sax quintet AATTB

Can’t Help Falling In Love
George Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore – sax quartet SATB/AATB

Hotel California
Glen Frey, Don Henley and Don Felder – sax quartet SATB

All I Want For Christmas Is You
Mariah Carey – sax quartet AATB

Fairytale of New York
Shane MacGowan and Jem Finer – sax quartet AATB (A1 doubling tin whistle in D)

O Come All Ye Faithful
traditional – sax quartet AATB

Monsters Inc Theme
Randy Newman – sax quartet SATB or sax trio STB with piano or jazz quintet (soprano sax, trombone, piano, bass and drums)

2 Waltz 2 Furious
Dmitri Shostakovich – sax quintet AATTB (with opt. rhythm section)

Bohemian Rhapsody
Freddie Mercury – sax quartet with piano

Piano

Bohemian Rhapsody
Freddie Mercury – piano solo or piano duet

Stål Himmel
Alan Fernie (originally for brass band) – piano solo

Other

I Get To Love You
Ruelle – voice, piano, violin, viola, cello

Here Comes The Sun
George Harrison – vocals, flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet, saxes ATB, trumpet, trombone, strings, percussion, guitars, bass, cajon

Hollaback Girl
Gwen Stefani (based on a cover by Foals) – flexible arrangement for samba band

Composition

24 Hour Musical 2023
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society

The People That Walked In Darkness
SATB chapel choir

Editing

Jive of the Bumblebee
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Tim Hargreaves) – big band

London Musical Theatre Orchestra: Sitzprobes
Various Artists – 51-piece orchestra

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This arrangement of Feeling Good by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse (based on Michael Buble’s version) for AATTB sax quintet was recorded in lockdown 2020 for an online concert with my local youth music centre.