Alice Jones

Alice Jones is a musician whose multifaceted career welcomes new listeners into the world of music through performance, education, and community building. She serves as the assistant dean of community engagement and career services and is a flute faculty member in the Music Advancement Program (MAP).

Raised in Austin, Texas, Jones has been a featured soloist and chamber musician at the Composers Now Festival at Symphony Space in New York City, the Yale-China Music Exchange in China, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Chamber Music Campania (Italy). As a composer, she has been commissioned and featured by the Phoenix Orchestra (Boston), University of New Mexico, Millikin University, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Gaudete Brass, and Decoda. Dr. Jones received the Brookshire award for musicological research and writing at SUNY Purchase, the Associated Music Teachers League Award for instruction at CUNY Queens, an Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Graduate Research Award from the National Flute Association. In 2018, she was named to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs inaugural Leadership Accelerator cohort, a group of dynamic emerging cultural leaders from traditionally underrepresented groups. Her research and pedagogical interests focus on the intersection between aesthetics and music cognition: the place where listener, performer, and composer meet.

Jones is a faculty member at Luzerne Music Center. She previously served as the Institutional Giving Manager and a concert series coordinator the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and she was a music faculty member at CUNY Queensborough Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, SUNY Purchase College and UpBeat NYC. She holds a BA from Yale University, MM and AD from SUNY Purchase, and DMA from the CUNY Graduate Center, and she studied with James DeVoll, Robert Dick, Juliana May, Tara Helen O’Connor, and Sergio Pallotelli. She is a Haynes artist