Jonathan Maxfield McCormick has been involved with YOA since its inagural tour in 2002. He has participated in six international concert tours, four with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and two with the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra of New England Conservatory. With YOA he has played under the baton of Placido Domingo, Leonard Slatkin, Gustavo Dudamel, Carlos Prieto, and Benjamin Zander, with soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, Gabriela Montero, and Mark Summers. He has also participated in the Boston Univeristy Tanglewood Institute Young Artist's Orchestra, the Atlantic Brass Quintet Seminar, the Bar Harbor Brass Week led by Blair Bollinger, and Domain Forget Summer Institute with Roger Bobo. He has appeared twice on the National Public Radio show "From the Top", first as "the tap-dancing tubist" with the New England Conservatory Scholarship Brass Quintet, and again with Gunther Schuller's "Ragtime Band." He holds a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory, and is currently pursuing his Master's in Music from McGill University in Montreal, QC. His principal teachers have been Dennis Miller, Ron Bishop, Rex Martin, Charles Villarubia, and Jon Manning.