Jonathan Mark Macpherson began his music education at the age of 7 when he learned to played the cornet in his primary school brass band. He has a Diploma in Music from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, and a Bachelor’s of Music with First Class Honours from the Royal College of Music.
Jonathan has performed in several operatic productions, most notably in the Singapore Lyric Opera’s semi-staged productions of Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte and The Opera People’s production of Dido and Aeneas. He was a finalist in the open category of the 2018 ASEAN Vocal Competition organised by the Singapore Lyric Opera.
In 2020, he founded the new Early Music Acapella group ‘5AM’. Having studied with Soprano Dr Jessica Chen at NAFA, Tenor David Rendall at the Royal College of Music, and training in the Singapore Lyric Opera’s Leow Siak Fah Young Artist Training Program, Jonathan is a lyric tenor who has been described as an ‘intelligent and expressive singer’.