Jonathan Harvey (born 3 May 1939 in Sutton Coldfield) is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.
He studied with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller at St John's College, Cambridge, eventually obtaining a PhD. Early musical influences included Schoenberg, Berg, Messiaen and Britten. While undertaking postgraduate study at Glasgow University, Harvey was a cellist in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Around this time, he became interested in the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1969 he took up a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University, where he encountered Milton Babbitt, another strong influence on his music. In the 1980s Harvey produced much music at IRCAM after receiving an invitation from Pierre Boulez to work there.
Harvey is a Visiting Professor of Music at University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and an Honorary Professor at Sussex University.
From 2005 to 2008, Jonathan Harvey held the post of Composer in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
In 2009 he was Composer in Residence at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
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