Jonathan Hodgetts

Jonathan started playing tuba at the age of 12 years old and apart from a two-year gap after leaving school, has been playing ever since. Initially playing in a local brass band, then after being inspired by going to a Proms concert in the early 1990s, learnt to read bass clef and studied to grade 8 standard to be able to play in an orchestra. Jonathan today as well as being the regular tuba player with Crowthorne Symphony Orchestra, also plays with the Band of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary and Beenham Wind Orchestra.

In 2011 Jonathan founded his own company, Wessex Tubas Limited which manufactures and sells not only tubas, but the entire brass instrument range all over the world, including particularly the USA and last year opened a new showroom in Valencia, Spain for the EU market.

Jonathan’s other passion besides playing the tuba is wildlife photography and he travels regularly all over the world including Africa, India, Brazil, Alaska and China photographing, and for the last two years has been a winner in the World Nature Photography Awards. When not travelling he also takes images at his local nature reserve in Andover, Anton Lakes which inspired the new tuba concerto having its orchestral premiered in this concert.

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