David Jones

Dr David Jones was born on the Wirral and graduated from the University of Wales, Bangor, with a First Class Honours Degree in Music, specialising in performance and studying piano with Jana Frenklova. He subsequently graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, with a Postgraduate Diploma in Piano Accompaniment, which he studied with John Wilson, and the degree of Master of Music in Performance for which he also submitted a study of the songs of Albert Roussel. After a year as Junior Fellow in Repetiteur Studies in the RNCM Opera Department, David lectured for three years at University College, Salford. He joined the staff of the School of Keyboard Studies at the RNCM in 1996 and was appointed Accompaniment Co-ordinator, now Head of Accompaniment, in September 2001. He is a tutor in piano at Junior RNCM having held the posts of Deputy Director and Senior Accompanist there between 1998 and 2023. He was  also chorus master of the RNCM Chamber Choir for four years. David has supervised three PhD students to successful completion on theses about French and British music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is currently supervising two more PhD candidates.

Dr David Jones completed his PhD on The Music of Jeffrey Lewis in 2011 at the University of Manchester, and as well as recordings of his piano and chamber music, (piano, vocal and chamber music – Metier/Divine Art, MSV28514, 2009; piano and chamber music – Campion, CAMEO2037, 2005; works for piano, clarinet and flute – ASC, CS CD43, 2001) and an article for Musical Times (Winter 2004, Vol 145, No 1889) David has completed editorial work for Cathedral Press on Lewis’s Sacred Chants (published 2013) together with video interviews with the composer for the Cathedral Press website: see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fJkMrzbnno and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2viH00Aefpg

As well as the recordings of Lewis’s music, David has recently recorded three discs of music by Robin Stevens – Chasing Shadows (Metier/ Divine Art dda 25236, 2023), Music for Cello and Piano (Metier/ Divine Art, dda 25217, 2022) and Prevailing Winds (Metier/ Divine Art, dda 25194, 2020). Other recordings include Judith Bingham: Piano Music (Toccata Classics, TOCC01812013), Philip Spratley: Choral Music (Prima Facie, PFCD100, 2011), John Ramsden Williamson: Chamber Music (Dunelm, DRD0271, 2007), John Ramsden Williamson: Songs (Dunelm, DDV24153, 2007), Stephen Plews: Piano Music (Campion, CAMEO 2029, 2005).

David has also been involved in the preparation and recording of Blooms of Dublin by Anthony Burgess, a project timed to coincide with the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses in 2022. Further material will be recorded in the summer of 2024 and this will be preserved at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester.