Jonathan Spatola-Knoll

Dr. Jonathan Spatola-Knoll enjoys a multifaceted career as a conductor and scholar. While Conducting Assistant for Symphony Tacoma, he made his subscription series debut conducting the premiere of Elfrida Andrée’s (1841-1929) Intermezzo for Orchestra (1892) using his scholarly edition prepared from the composer’s manuscripts.

He has earned a growing international reputation as an expert on Andrée, a pioneering Swedish feminist composer. His editions of Andrée’s music have been used by orchestras throughout North America, South America, and Europe. His publishers include Hildegard Publishing, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, and Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. His edition of her First Symphony - the earliest known symphony by a Swedish woman - is under contract with A&R Editions, North America’s leading publisher of scholarly musical editions. In addition, he has been invited to present on her musical feminism at various nationally and internationally recognized conferences, including multiple national meetings of the American Musicological Society.

Upcoming highlights as a conductor and editor include Western-Hemisphere premiere of Andrée’s Suffrage Cantata (1911) at Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA), where he serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, and a performance of her Symphony No. 2 with the Issaquah Philharmonic Orchestra (Issaquah, WA), where he acts as music director and conductor.

Spatola-Knoll’s other accomplishments as a conductor include a residency at the Salzburg Festival as a winner of the Ansbacher Fellowship for Young Conductors (American-Austrian Foundation), an award selected by members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also been named a winner of the Cascade Conducting Fellowship and is a three-time finalist for the American Prize in Orchestral Conducting. Spatola-Knoll holds a Ph.D. in Musicology and a master’s in Conducting from the University of California, Davis.