Jonathan Zwartz

Jonathan is an award-winning musician, screen composer, curator and live music advocate and has served on the APRA board since 2019. With three albums released under his own name, Jonathan’s third release, Animarum, won the 2018 ARIA for Best Jazz Album. Jonathan was nominated for the ARIA again in 2020 for the composer collaboration album This World, along with Mike Nock Julien Wilson and Hamish Stuart.

Jonathan has toured nationally with Vince Jones, Katie Noonan, Dami Im, Jade MacRae, Pharoah Sanders and many more. He is an active and staunch advocate for Australian music and has curated and produced the ABC TV ten-part series The Pulse, served as a member on City of Sydney's Live Music Taskforce, and is co-director of the long-running community concert series Starfish Club.

Jonathan has studied at the NSW Conservatorium (The Con), holds a Masters from ANU, and completed a graduate diploma in screen composition at AFTRS. He has composed music for documentaries including Backtrack Boys, Ka-Ching, a Pokies Nation and Richard Leplastrier, Framing the View.