Jonathan Grossmann

Jonathan Grossmann was born in 2004 in New York (USA) and grew up in Berlin, where at the age of five he received his first cello instruction with Ulrich Voss. In 2020 he became a preparatory student of Mischa Meyer at the Berlin University of the Arts. He then continued his studies with Tanja Tetzlaff at the College of Music and Theater (HFMT) in Hamburg before transferring to the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna to continue his studies in the class of Reinhard Latzko. He has also received additional musical inspiration from, among others, Danjulo Ishizaka, Peter Bruns and Wen-Sinn Yang.

Jonathan Grossmann has been a prize winner several times at the national competition Jugend musiziert and has also been sponsored by the International Music Academy in Berlin. From 2020 until 2023 he was a member of the National Youth Orchestra, where he worked with Kirill Petrenko and Paavo Järvi, among others, and from 2023 until 2026 he was a stipendiary of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Jonathan Grossmann has also gathered orchestral experience in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. Since 2025 he has worked increasingly as a substitute with the Vienna Symphony. With the 2026/2027 season, Jonathan Grossmann begins a new role as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Academy.