General Manager Jonathan Goya comes to Trobár with a diverse array of project management, education, and performance experience. Over the course of a decade in academic research labs at the University of Arizona, University of Chicago, and Princeton University, Jonathan managed multiple international collaborations, contributed to dozens of successful grant applications, and personally secured over $100,000 in research funding for their PhD dissertation in Computational Biology. During this time, Jonathan also taught college-credit courses in New Jersey prisons through the Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative and designed the course materials for an Advanced Statistics course that enabled incarcerated students to learn this material without access to calculators and computers. 

 

Jonathan then spent several years teaching Biology, Genetics, and Biotechnology at Bard Early College High School in Manhattan, where they became the Science Department's specialist in adapting college-credit courses to be accessible to students with learning disabilities. Jonathan also directed the BHSEC Chamber Ensemble, which performed a vast array of music including works by Lully, Bach, and Haydn with period bows; excerpts from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with student choreographies developed in a workshop with Meredith Monk; and premieres of student compositions on nearly every concert.

 

Jonathan moved to Cleveland in the Fall of 2020 to finally realize a life-long dream of performing, studying, and working with music full-time. As a doctoral student at Case Western Reserve University, they recently presented a lecture-recital on the role of violin duos in the career of Louis Spohr, as well as a recital of French Baroque music for the Boston Early Music Festival Online Fringe Concerts. They are now writing a dissertation on the intersection of music theory and economics in the works and career of 18th-century violin pedagogue Francisco Geminiani.