Stephen Jones - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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Stephen Jones is Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications and Professor of Composition in the School of Music at Brigham Young University. Prior to his assignment as Dean he served as Assistant to the Academic Vice President at BYU, coordinating the strategy and implementation of the university’s e-learning services.

Jones studied composition as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University and received MM and DMA degrees in composition from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where his principal teachers were Jonathan Kramer, Joel Hoffman, Alan Sapp, and Earle Brown. His studies also included work with Bernard Rands at Aspen and Joseph Schwantner at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Jones is the recipient of a Utah Arts Council Artist Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Composer Assistance Grant from the American Music Center. His work sing the earth for orchestra won a Judges’ Commendation for Excellence in the 1995 Barlow International Competition. He has since served as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition and is now chair of the board of directors. His music can be heard on the Gasparo and Tantara labels. His works for wind band will be published in 2005 by Boosey and Hawkes as part of their Windependence series.

Jones resides in American Fork, Utah with his wife, Wendy, and their four children.