A.R. Rahman with the SF Symphony

Jonathan Taylor Rush has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Nashville Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony, Savannah Philharmonic, Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, and Nairobi Philharmonic. Rush often collaborates with non-classical musicians including Cypress Hill, Leslie Odom Jr., Wordsmith, Ledisi, Freedia, Darin Atwater, and Karen Clark Sheard. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut last April with the rapper Common.

Rush served as assistant and associate conductor of the Baltimore Symphony, where he curated the inaugural Gospel Fest and served as artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras, which he led on tour to Europe. His most recent release, on Decca Classics, is the world premiere recording of Carlos Simon’s brea(d)th. He has premiered works by James Lee III and Fernando Arroyo Lascurian, and championed the music of William Grant Still, Florence Price, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.