Jonathan Yates is an American conductor of the Sarah Lawrence College, Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble and a recipient of both Walter F. Naumburg's Chamber Music Prize and American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award.
[1] Yates have obtained a diploma through Juilliard School where he was taught by James DePreist and Otto-Werner Mueller.
Later on, he got a scholarship which was named after Bruno Walter and then got his master's degree in music from State University of New York at Stony Brook after he completed his studies which were under guidance from Gilbert Kalish.
He also conducted Adam Silverman's Orphans at the Austrian Cultural Forum and made his first public appearance at the age of 23 with National Symphony Orchestra at the Millennium Stage.
Currently Yates works as a teacher of French, German and Italian languages and as an accompanist at the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.