Jonathan Price is a composer for new opera, musical theatre, film and concert works. His most recent musical Lao Jiu: The Musical, featuring a libretto in Mandarin and Chinese dialects, inaugurated The New Drama Centre in Singapore to packed houses and overwhelmingly rave reviews. His latest film scores are for the feature Cyber Wars, released by New Line, and Necrosis, released by American World Pictures. His opera The Lion and the Wood Nymph was a winner of New Opera Works' OIAM competition.


Jonathan's music for television has been heard on Showtime, The Discovery Channel, TLC, Oxygen, MTV, PAX, PBS, and Fox. With playwright/lyricist Jeff Goode (The Eight: Reindeer Monologues), he composed the song "The Hubba Hubba Hula" for The Disney Channel's American Dragon: Jake Long as well as the musical A Christmas Carol's Eve, which was a finalist in the Search for New Voices in American Musical Theatre. Their children's musical Rumpelstiltskin is published by Baker's Plays.



His music for film includes the features Necrosis, Cyber Wars, Rustin, and Dark Woods. His work as a soundtrack producer and synthesist can be heard in An Unfinished Life, The Grudge, Runaway Jury, Shade, The Core, The Country Bears, The Shipping News, and Bandits.



He is currently composing the hexaptych opera Æsopera, with libretti by Jeff Goode, Jan Michael Alejandro and the composer, to be presented in October 2011 by Social Arts at The Blinn House, Pasadena, directed by Kirk Smith. This event is supported in part through Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum. He is also composing the holiday opera The Christmas Ogre with librettist Jeff Goode, to be produced at The Sierra Madre Playhouse in December 2012.