Ian Jones
Ian Jones' career as a Steinway Artist has taken him to all five continents. Appearances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Hall include critically acclaimed performances of Rachmaninov’s Second and Third Piano Concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini as well as concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Schumann. He has appeared in Paris and throughout France as concerto soloist with Ensemble International de Paris and has performed many of Mozart’s Piano Concertos in Europe and the USA.
He was a prizewinner at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1993 and other awards include the Royal College of Music’s most prestigious piano prize, the Chappell Medal, and a French Government Scholarship inviting him to spend a year in Paris. His teachers and mentors have included Maria Curcio, Gyorgy Sebok, Phyllis Sellick, Niel Immelman, Jerome Lowenthal, Martin Canin and Alain Planès.
He has broadcast for radio and television networks in many different countries and his first two CDs of chamber music by British composer Rebecca Clarke, for Dutton Epoch, have attracted much favourable attention on radio and in the music press.
