Jonathan Willcocks was born in Worcester, England in 1953. Following early musical training as a boy chorister at King's College, Cambridge and an Open Music Scholar at Clifton College, he took an Honours degree in Music from Cambridge University where he held a choral scholarship at Trinity College.

As a conductor, Jonathan is musical director of two large adult choruses - Portsmouth Choral Union and the Chichester Singers - and of the professional chamber orchestra Southern Pro Musica. He works extensively as a guest conductor of both choral and orchestral music, a career that has taken him in recent years to France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Australia and Singapore, in addition to engagements throughout the length and breadth of the USA and UK.

As a composer, Jonathan's music is published by Oxford University Press and the Lorenz group of companies and by Prime Music. His published music includes major choral works, works for children's choir, many shorter choral pieces (including anthems and secular choral music) and instrumental works. There have also been a number of recordings of his music, with plans for further discs in the near future. Look at What's New? for the most recently published pieces.