Jon studied at Cambridge University, the London College of Music and Dartington College and is based near Bristol.
His awards include winning the Best Use Of Sound award at the 2022 BBC Audio Drama Awards, for which he was a finalist again in 2023 and 2025. The Radio 4 documentary series In Dark Corners, which he sound designed and mixed, won Gold for Best Factual Series at the 2023 ARIAs and Radio Programme Of The Year at the 2023 British Press Guild Awards, and The Man Who Fell To Earth won Gold at the 2024 Signal Awards. His composed feature Water Towers Of New York won the Silver award for Best Single Factual documentary at the New York Radio Festivals.
Currently available / upcoming:
Othello (Theatre Royal Haymarket | dir. Tom Morris | David Harewood, Toby Jones & Caitlin Fitzgerald. Music by PJ Harvey)
The Rat Catcher (Audible | 6 x 60’’ | prod. Simon Barnard). Mixed in Dolby Atmos.
Saya Woolfack: Empathic Universe (Gallery installation |New York Museum of Arts & Design)
Lonely Now More (Audiama | 8 x 45 | dir. Jessica Dromgoole). Mixed in Dolby Atmos
Drama on 3: Love & Information (BBC Radio 3 | 79’’ | dir. Mary Peate)
Our Mutual Friend (BBC Radio 4 | 3 x 60’’ | dir. Polly Thomas)
Between The Ears: Bring What You Expect To Find (BBC Radio 3 | 28’’ | prod. Jessica Dromgoole)
Uncharted With Hannah Fry Series 1 & 2 (BBC Sounds | 20 x 15’’ |prod. Ilan Goodman)
Spores (BBC Sounds Limelight |5 x 45’’| dir. Nicolas Jackson)
In Dark Corners Series 1 & 2 (BBC Radio 4 |10 x 28’’| prod. Caitlin Smith)
Username: Resurgent (Audible | 10 x 28’’ |prod. Simon Barnard). Mixed in Dolby Atmos.
The Baker Street Four (Audible | 9 x 20’’, dir. Celia De Wolff)
Vergil: A Mythological Musical! (Audible | 8 x 50’’ | dir. Polly Thomas)
Rare Earth (BBC Radio 4 |60’’| dir. Nicolas Jackson)
Drama on 3: Reykjavik (BBC Radio 3|90’’ dir. Nicolas Jackson)
Drama on 3: Venice Preserv’d (BBC Radio 3|90’’ dir. Gaynor MacFarlane)
The Ballad Of The Bet (composed feature for BBC Radio 4, prod. Monica Whitlock)
The Ballad Of The Fix (composed feature for BBC Radio 4, prod. Monica Whitlock)
The Ballad Of The Blade (composed feature for BBC Radio 4, prod. Monica Whitlock)
Audio drama & composed features
Jon has extensive experience as sound designer, location sound recordist and composer working on large-scale full-cast audio dramas for the BBC, Audible and others, mixing in a range of immersive formats including binaural and Dolby Atmos.
Recent multi-episode series include Marietta Kirkbride’s dystopian mycological thriller series Spores for BBC Sounds Limelight, Our Mutual Friend for Radio 4, Lonely No More for Audiama and The Rat Catcher, The Baker Street Four and Username: Resurgent for Audible. For the BBC he’s worked on many acclaimed single dramas including Love and Information, The Man Who Fell To Earth, From Morning To Midnight, Song From Far Away, Ariel And Winter Trees, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Henry V and The Age Of Anxiety.
Earlier highlights include collaborating with Tony Harrison on his adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris , and dramatisations of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea novels, Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-winning novel Beloved, Robert Pirsig’s cult 70’s classic Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and the audio adaptation of Peter Flannery’s modern classicOur Friends in The North for BBC Radio 4.
His work in factual audio includes flagship documentary series including In Dark Corners, Bad Blood and Uncharted With Hannah Fry. He’s also collaborated on numerous composed features bringing factual storytelling together with music and intricately detailed and expressive sound design. These include Bring What You Expect To Find, Ballad Of The Blade, Ballad Of The Fix, Water Towers Of New York and What I Heard About Iraq (Prix Italia Jury Special Mention).
Screen
Jon’s composed extensively for factual television, working with companies including BBC Scotland, Blakeway, Firecracker, Hard Cash Productions, Films Of Record, Mentorn, Urban Films, Sky, ITV and Al Jazeera. Corporate work includes music and sound design for films for Cambridge University Hospitals Redevelopment Trust, the International Red Cross, Gatwick airport, and an ongoing series of films for the Centre For Brain Health at the University Of Texas.
Theatre
Jon worked extensively in theatre between 2010 and 2021 as both composer and sound designer. Highlights include April de Angelis’ epic two-part adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend in the Olivier at the National Theatre directed by Melly Still, Iqbal Khan’s revival of East Is East in the Lyttleton at the National Theatre, working with John Malkovich on Good Canary at the Rose and collaborating with Jamiroquai’s Sola Akingbola on the score for the RSC’s smash-hit production of Hamlet. He composed / sound-designed the world stage premiere of David Greig’s hugely acclaimed adaptation of Joe Simpson’s survival classic Touching The Void which went on to a sell-out West-End run, and created music / sound-design for Theatre Royal Bath’s production of Florian Zeller’s The Mother, starring Gina McKee, nominated for Best New Play in the WhatsOnStage Awards. Other theatre highlights includes Owen Sheers’ devastating Pink Mist at Bristol Old Vic and the Bush (nominated for best sound design, Off-West End Awards), Idomeneus and Dear Elizabeth at the Gate, and the National Theatre’s smash-hit European premiere productions of Tennessee Williams’s Spring Storm and Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon – ‘a triumph on so many levels I would need at least twice the space to do them justice’ (Independent); ‘one of the most thrilling theatre offerings of the decade’ (Telegraph).