Artist Roster

Jonathan W. Whitney is a father, husband, son, artivist, jazz drummer and composer. He uses his music to search for spaces to find understanding. Commissions include Lilly (2025), Cooch’s Bridge: The Battle (2025) Cooch’s Bridge The African American Presence (2024), Cooch’s Bridge | The Family (2023),  collaborations with the choreographer Ashley S.K. Davis to craft music for her dance works Divided We Fall (2019) and Ode (owed) to Black Women (2022), When The Two Shall Meet (2019), Bedtime (2019), for institutions such as Melomanie, Pieces of a Dream, Inc (dance company), the Friends of the Cooch’s Bridge Historic Site, and the Sothern Vermont Arts Center. He has been a featured artist with the Wilmington Children’s Chorus, University of Delaware Orchestra, and Melomanie, to name a few. Artists he has performed with include The Twin Poets, Mekada Hampton, Vernon James, Donald Byrd, Kevin Kirkwood, Lili Añel, Jea Street, Jr., Mike Boone, John Swana, Nadjah Nicole, V. Shayne Fredrick, Maya Belardo, The Chantelles, Tony Smith, and The Bearded Ladies. His debut album, Life's Dimensions (2020), can be found on all platforms. He was a recipient of the 2020 Delaware Established Artist Fellowship for jazz composition and the 2026 Delaware Established Artist Fellowship for msic composition. Jonathan is currently the artist-in-residence at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew. He has his undergraduate degree in Music Education from the University of Delaware and a Masters in Music in Jazz Studies from the University of the Arts.

I have several works available to celebrate the 250th. "Cooch's Bridge: The African American Presence" is a hour long jazz suite written to celebrate African Americans who lived, worked, and fought, both free and enslaved, on the Cooch's Bridge historic site. "Cooch's Bridge: The Battle" is a 20 minute work for pipe organ and three percussionists that draws inspiration from September 3, 1777 the day of the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, Delaware's only Revolutionary War Battle. Both works can include pre-concert conversations, post-concert talkbacks, and a variety of workshops.