Beginning his musical life as a violist, Rob Jones started conducting at university. He was co-conductor of Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra for their 2022-23 season, and founded the Aristidean Chamber Orchestra in 2023. A lover of contemporary music, he has given premieres of works by Mary Offer, Felix Elliott, and Alice Rivers, the European premiere of ‘The Blue Hour’, and the second UK performance of John Luther Adams ‘Become River’. 2024 saw him produce and direct a performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’s 2000 masterpiece ‘in vain’, and study conducting at Sherborne school of music with Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Robert Houlihan, and Natalia Luis-Bassa.

 

As a violist, Rob held an instrumental award at Cambridge University, was a member of their CAMRAM scheme, and was section principal of the university orchestra. Rob was president of Girton College Music Society in 2022 and sang in the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge as an undergraduate. Rob worked as a Graduate Assistant at the City of London School in 2022-3, and now works as a violin, viola and piano teacher.