Martin Jones
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Martin Jones is a British concert pianist, born Feb 4th 1940, in Witney, England. Studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Guido Agosti, Guy Jonson, and Gordon Green [1]. Highly regarded since debuting on the international arena when he won the Dame Myra Hess award in 1968.[2]
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[edit] Debut
His London debut was at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1968 His New York debut was at Carnegie Hall in 1968
[edit] Concerto soloist
Jones has worked with various orchestras throughout the world including: the London Festival Orchestra; the Halle Orchestra; the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; and the BBC Welsh Orchestra
[edit] Film score
Jones provided the piano in the Oscar nominated recording for the film of Howard's End, performing Percy Grainger's Bridal Lullaby and Mock Morris. The score was by Richard Robbins.
[edit] Recording
Jones is a prolific recording artist on the Nimbus Records label:
- Karol Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
- Percy Grainger "Dished up for piano": Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
- Mendelssohn: Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
- Debussy: Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
- Brahms: Complete Piano Music (Nimbus)
- Shostakovich: Piano Concertos & Chamber Symphony (Nimbus)
- Finzi, Parry, Bridge: An English Suite (Nimbus)
- Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music Volume 1 (Nimbus)
- Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music Volume 2 (Nimbus)
- Spirit of England II (Nimbus)
- Igor Stravinsky: Piano Music (Nimbus)
- Spanish Piano Music (Nimbus)
- Meditations at Sunset: Finzi, Haydn, Elgar, J. C. Bach, Respighi, Bartok (Nimbus)
- Debussy: Clair de Lune and other Piano Favourites (Nimbus)
- Percy Grainger: Piano Favourites (Nimbus)
