Jonathan Downs

Jonathan Downs holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance with a concentration in Jazz Guitar and has taught music at the Peaks Island Elementary School Aftercare Program, Hope House; a home for Asylum Seekers in Portland, ME, Breakwater School, Maine Academy of Modern Music and Fiddlehead Center for the Arts, as well as in private lessons since 2015. He has been a writing and performing original music since 2008, and has toured internationally, sharing the stage with performers such as Lucy Dacus, Dick Dale, Big Thief, Godspeed You Black Emperor and Earth. Jonathan enjoys helping his students to engage their creativity and imagination in music, while also teaching the inner workings and fine details of techniques, instruments, music theory and history, the development of skills, and the joys of practice, improvement, and appreciation of music.