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Composer and conductor Joseph Jones studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and
has been a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Allentown Symphony. He has
also been an assistant or apprentice conductor with the New York Youth Symphony,
National Music Festival, and Gulf Coast Symphony. He’s guest conducted the Color of Music
Festival orchestra and with the Trilogy Opera Company. In 2015 he founded Orchestra
Amadeus, a New York City based project whose mission is to promote social justice through
classical musi
As a composer, Mr. Jones’ works have been performed in the United States and Europe. His catalog includes more than 100 pieces including art song, solo instrumental, chamber music, choral, concertante, chamber, string, and full orchestra, oratorio, ballet, and opera. He was the first prize-winner in the call for scores held by Music Of the Unsung America in Miami, giving the premiere of his Second Symphony for String Orchestra in April, 2021, and a 2021- 2022 NATS fellow/mentee.
Mr. Jones has studied violin, viola, percussion, and voice and has performed as an orchestral and chamber musician, chorister, and soloist. He studied composition with Nicholas Maw at Peabody and Dr. Samuel Adler at the Bowdoin Festival. Mr. Jones is a native of Rhode Island, where he was raised on a farm in a small town. He currently lives in New York City