hello

I lead a very varied musical life - a mixture of recitals and concertos, accompaniment (mainly with singers) and some teaching.

I feel that each area feeds the other which give me great joy, making me a better musician and certainly a better person.

My primary aim is to allow people who have met me to stay in contact.

Events 2010

Norfolk County Music Festival

1 March to Saturday 13 March 2010
Official Accopmanist
Norfolk County Music Festival

St. David's Church Thorpe End Norwich

15th May 2010, 19.30
Recital

Teaching

I teach at Wymondham College in Norfolk, at the University of East Anglia. I also offer private lessons.

I teach at all levels from beginners through to advanced, children & adults. My youngest is 8 and my oldest is 80!

I find it a wonderful challenge to prepare students for performance; and with children, to help them with confidence and life skills.

I have a gift for motivating, especially with people who are gifted or with technical problems. Those who I have taught from the beginning all seem to get very high marks in their grade exams.

Repertoire

Composers available for performances

Addinsell
Bach
Bartók
Beethoven
Roderick Blake
Blancafort
Boulez
Brahms
Britten
A. Chasins
Chopin
Copland
Czerny

Debussy
Dutilleux
De falla
Roderick Elms
Fauré
Franck
Gershwin
Ginastera
Granados
Haydn
Holst
Hummel
Liszt

Mahler
Martinu
Messiaen
Moszkowski
Mozart
Orff
Paderewski
Poulenc
Prokofiev
Rachmaninov
Ravel
Scarlatti
Schönberg

Schubert
De séverac
Szymanowski
Rachmaninov
Rossini
Satie
Schnittke
Schubert
Shostakovich
Stravinsky
Strauss
Walton
Williams

Recordings

listen

David Neil Jones - Rachmaninov

David Neil Jones - Debussey

reviews

Venues & Festivals

The Beccles Music Festival
Norfolk County Music Festival - Official Accopmanist
King of Hearts
Chateau de Chanze (Loire Valley)

biography

1
2
3
4

David Neil Jones began playing the piano at the age of ten. After a year of study in Austria he was awarded a place at the Royal College of Music in London, where his teacher was Peter Element.

A seminal influence upon his musical development has been recordings of great virtuosi from the past: Horowitz, Rachmaninov, Cortot, Art Tatum, Milstein, Szigeti, to name but a few. Combining the joyful freedom of expression they showed possible with elements of the contemporary movement for authenticity, David Neil Jones' performances are strongly crafted, virtuoso, yet pervaded with colour and above all, a singing tone. He plays a wide range of repertoire, embracing a particular love of French and Russian music.

David has given recitals in London at the Royal National Theatre and Barbican Centre. In 1997 an invitation to play before the eminent French composer Dutilleux during his 80th. birthday celebrations in London lead to subsequent performances of the composer's Piano Sonata.

More recently, David has been recitalist aboard cruise liners touring the world for Cunard, P & O and Olsen Lines. This has resulted in invitations to play in the United States and for Polish television in Warsaw. Many people who have heard concerts given by David have commented on his ability to put his audience at ease and welcome them to his world of music and yet communicate his passion for his art.

An experienced concerto player, David Neil Jones performed Rachmaninov's first concerto at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. In September he will perform Mozart's Concerto in E flat, K.449 with the London Mozart Players. As an orchestral pianist, he recently performed Copland's Appalachian Spring for the newly formed Chamber Orchestra Anglia. David's début CD, 'Piano Variations' was released in November 1995 on the Amphion label. A second CD, 'Piano Interpretations' was released in January 2000.

As an accompanist he has collaborated extensively with soprano, Sheila Barnes with whom he shares a special interest in French and Spanish song repertoire, recently performing a recital at Dartington Summer School. He is a regular performer at the annual Norfolk County Music Festival where he is an official accompanist and recently he has worked with the London Jewish Male Choir.

Now based in Norfolk, David freelances as piano soloist and accompanist and teaches piano students at the University of East Anglia and Wymondham College.

contact

To book me for concerts, to purchase CDs, any comments and for any other information you can either call me on (+44) (0)7970 279209 or send me a message.

Would you like to go on a cruise with me? I have done quite a few cruises now and on each one I have met wonderful people. It occurred to me how nice it would be to have the opportunity to travel together again. Click on cruises to see any future ships on which I will be playing so that if you felt like it, you could come too. Do please contact me before booking.

David Neil Jones' performances are strongly crafted, virtuoso, yet pervaded with colour and above all, a singing tone. He plays a wide range of repertoire, embracing a particular love of French and Russian music.