Alice Jones
Soloist, Chamber musician, Educator, Composer, Community builder
ADjunct Professor SUNY/CUNY - Flute TUTOR - JuIlliard Music ADvancement Program, NYC
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Raised in Austin, TX, Alice Jones is a musician whose multi-faceted career welcomes new listeners into the world of music. As a flutist, composer, teacher, and administrator, she pushes against the boundaries of what it means to be a musician, whose voices can be heard, and what success looks like. In 2020, she became the Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Career Services at the Juilliard School, drawing upon her commitment to music creation, education, and collaboration.
An avid symphonic, chamber, theater, and contemporary performer, Alice was praised by Mario Davidovsky as “the flute player who could really play” and Fanfare Magazine called her 2017 album with Ensemble 365 “pretty music faultless... required listening.” Her performances have been described as “lively” (New York Times), “superb” (Carole Farley, soprano), and “delicate and passionate with beautiful articulation and dynamics” (Eleanor Cory, composer). She has been a featured soloist and chamber musician at the Look and Listen Festival, Composers Now Festival, the Yale-China Music Exchange in China, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Chamber Music Campania (Italy). She is a member of the New York-based collective The Curiosity Cabinet, whose interdisciplinary performances feature 20th and 21st century music combined with film, puppeteers, dance, narration, and acting. She was a founding member of is the woodwind quintet Fiati Five, which toured Italy for four seasons.
Alice’s chamber music arrangements and compositions have been performed by the Phoenix Orchestra (Boston), University of New Mexico horn studio, and Lucera Vocal Institute (Italy). In 2020, she launched #tinyefforts2020, inviting performances of four open instrumentation solos she composed that summer through social media platforms, sharing the scores for free and paying any performer who participated. Her most recent commissions come from Gaudete Brass, Decoda (Carnegie Hall), Amity Trio, Millikin University, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and the Phoenix Orchestra (Boston).
She is a skilled fundraiser and strategic arts administrator, having led the Development Department at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for four years. At the Conservatory, she also designed and curated three seasons of Parlour Room Sessions, an audience engagement-driven chamber music series which featured female and BIPOC musicians on stage in nearly every performance. She currently curates the Faculty Artist Recital Series at Luzerne Music Center. In 2018, she was named to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs inaugural Leadership Accelerator cohort, a group of dynamic cultural leaders from traditionally underrepresented groups.
As a classroom instructor, studio teacher, and teaching artist, Alice is inspired by the intersection between aesthetics and music cognition—the place where listener, performer, and composer meet—and how this intersection propels innovative artistry. She is a sought-after workshop facilitator and clinician, leading recent workshops for the Mostly Mozart Festival, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Connect, and the Haynes flute company. At The Juilliard School, she teaches entrepreneurship and classroom pedagogy in the college division, in addition to flute and community building in Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program. She is a flute faculty member at Montclair State University and Luzerne Music Center. She previously served on the music faculties at the Aaron Copland School of Music at CUNY Queens College, CUNY Queensborough Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, SUNY Purchase College, and UpBeat (an El Sistema program in the Bronx).
Alice graduated from Yale University (BA), SUNY Purchase (MM, AD), and the CUNY Graduate Center (DMA). Her principal teachers include James DeVoll, Robert Dick, Juliana May, Tara Helen O’Connor, and Sergio Pallotelli.
Alice lives in New York City. When she's not musicking, she’s likely walking her dogs or making ice cream. She is a Haynes artist.