Suite in Mu Major 4 - Ballade (Pretzel Logic)

Movement for solo guitar

Suite in Mu Major - 4 Ballade (Pretzel Logic)

Arrangement of the choral work "Lux Aurumque" by Eric Whitacre performed on solo guitar by Jonathan Godfrey.

Lux Aurumque

Music at 80MPH by Jonathan Godfrey
Originally guitar and cello

Arrangement for guitar and viola

Music At 80MPH

Suite In Mu Major 1 - Prelude 
(Deacon Blues, with riffs from Reelin' in the Years and Hey Nineteen)

Sonata form with the feel of a lively bolero.

Suite In Mu Major 1 - Prelude (Deacon Blues, Reelin' in the Years, Hey Nineteen)

Suite In Mu Major Movement 2 - Pastorale (Aja)

In the style of Debussy, particularly the opening movement from the Sonata for Harp, Viola, and Flute. Features many Debussy-like elements (extended tertian sonorities, a symmetrical arch-like form, and a golden-ratio climax quoted directly from the Sonata).

Suite In Mu Major - 2 Pastorale (Aja)

Suite In Mu Major 3 - Scherzo (Rikki Don't Lose that Number)

In the style of my own original composition, Music at 80MPH (guitar and violin).

Suite In Mu Major - 3 Scherzo (Rikki Don't Lose that Number)

Suite In Mu Major 5 - Finale (Do it Again)

In the style of a Latin Groove, much like the song that inspired it.

Suite In Mu Major - 5 Finale (Do it Again)

Tunguska for guitar quartet
Honorable Mention - 2019 Austin Classical Guitar Society Composition Competition

TUNGUSKA

Jonathan Godfrey, guitar; Colin Sorgi, violin; Rose Wollman, viola; Jessica Banks, flute

Saudade - I. Quick, bright

Saudade - II. Dark Slow

Dr. Jonathan Godfrey began his collegiate studies in guitar at the age of 16. Since then he has been the laureate of several performance and composition competitions and has concertized throughout the United States and in South Korea. He has recorded solo performances for albums released by the Embassy of Spain and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Hailed on NPR Houston’s Front Row as “…a very talented young American composer” with his works having been described as “…invitingly poetic” (Boston Globe), Godfrey’s original solo, chamber, and choral works have been performed and commissioned internationally by such groups as the Petar Jankovic Ensemble, Mexico City’s Tuumben Paax, New York’s Goliard Ensemble, Sarasota's Trio Voila, and São Paulo’s Villa Duo, as well as by numerous international prize-winning solo guitarists. In 2011 he was named grand prize winner of the Boston GuitarFest International Composition Competition for his now oft-programmed Sonatina for solo guitar. 

Godfrey counts among his former guitar and composition teachers Jason Vieaux, Ernesto Bitetti, P.Q. Phan, Paul Schoenfield, and Aaron Travers,. He holds his Bachelor of Music from LaGrange College, his Master of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and his Doctor of Music from Indiana University. 

Jonathan Godfrey

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