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PAUL S. JONES
Choral Artist-in-Residence,
phone: 215-204-8304
e-mail: pjones@tenth.org

 

 

Dr. Paul S. Jones is Choral Artist-in-Residence (2009-2010) for the Boyer College of Music and Dance. Since 1998, he has been Organist and Music Director at historic Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, where he oversees six choirs, two orchestras, a music education program, and the Tenth Concert Series. He is also a pianist, composer/arranger, teacher, and author. Born in New Brunswick, Canada his earliest musical training began at the age of five in the Toronto Conservatory program. He holds the Doctor of Music degree in choral conducting and an M.M. in piano from Indiana University where he was a doctoral fellow, as well as undergraduate degrees in piano, composition, and theology. Dr. Jones performs frequently with David, Kim, violin; Anne Martindale Williams, cello; and Samuel Hsu, duo piano; and he has accompanied Metropolitan Opera singers Jerome Hines, Sharon Sweet, Stuart Neill, and Todd Thomas. He has composed or arranged more than 200 sacred works, including 50 hymn tunes, and is author of Singing & Making Music: Issues in Church Music Today (P&R, 2006). His teachers included Robert Porco, Thomas Dunn and Jan Harrington (conducting); Menahem Pressler, Edward Auer, Martin Canin and Samuel Hsu (piano); Josef Gingold (chamber music); Robert Carwithen and Roy Brunner (organ); and Alan Bennett (voice).