Jonathan Godfrey

Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, guitarist Jonathan Godfrey has given hundreds of performances throughout the United States. In 2010, he won 2nd Prize in the Thirteenth Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America held at Indiana University and later recorded on a documentary winner’s CD sponsored by the Embassy of Spain and distributed to Spanish embassies and consulates worldwide. The same year, he also won 2nd Prize at the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Strings Competition and was a top prize-winner in the Indiana University chapter of the National Association of Arts and Letters Instrumental Music Competition. He has performed with numerous renowned ensembles, including the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, and members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Godfrey is a former student of Jason Vieaux and Philip Snyder (of the Georgia Guitar Quartet) and has performed in the masterclasses of Lorenzo Micheli, Matteo Mela, Gyan Riley, Nigel North, Paul O’Dette, Ricardo Iznaola, Andrew Zohn, and Adam Holzman, among numerous others. He currently studies under Argentinian-born guitarist Ernesto Bitetti.

Godfrey holds his BM in Performance and Composition with a minor in Religion and Philosophy from LaGrange College (GA) magna cum laude, and his MM in Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is currently pursuing his DM in Performance with minor concentrations in both Composition and Music Theory at Indiana University, where he also works as an Associate Instructor of Guitar.