"Alice Jones, beast of a flute player... is a total gem: she comes to rehearsals with excellent knowledge and analyses of the works, and helps create beautiful interpretations of the music we present on our programs. She's literally down for just about anything as well—looking for a sound? I bet you she can make it on one of those flutes! She's a total team player, and we couldn't be happier to get to work with her... [H]ear her ROAR!"
-Whitney George, composer and director of The Curiosity Cabinet
Photo credit: Sarah Tew
Raised in Austin, TX, flutist Alice Jones is known for giving performances that are “lively” (New York Times), “superb” (Carole Farley, soprano), and “delicate and passionate with beautiful articulation and dynamics” (Eleanor Cory, composer). An avid symphonic, chamber, theater, and contemporary musician, with performances ranging from the Brandenburg Concerti to New York City’s Look and Listen Festival, 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.” She has been a featured soloist and chamber musician at the Composers Now Festival at Symphony Space in New York City (2010 and 2011), the Yale-China Music Exchange in China (2007 and 2008), the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (2010), and Chamber Music Campania in Italy and Sarasota, FL (2013-2016).
Alice is committed to premiering new chamber music repertoire and is a founding member of several chamber music ensembles, including the flute and soprano duo conText (with Mary Hubbell), Ensemble 365, and the woodwind quintet Fiati Five. Alice is also a member of the New York-based collective The Curiosity Cabinet, whose interdisciplinary performances feature not only new music and staples of the 20th century, but also film, puppeteers, dance, narration, and acting. Her recent commissions and premieres have included works by Gregory Brown, Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Cody Forrest, Whitney George, Ryan Howard, Carrie Magin, Eric Nathan, and Inés Thiebaut, and she has premiered several works by members of the Long Island Composers Alliance with percussionist Cesare Papetti and pianist Derin Öge.
Among her accolades include winning the baroque concerto competition at SUNY Purchase and being named an invited participant in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition (2012). Alice also received the Brookshire award for musicological research and writing at SUNY Purchase, the Associated Music Teachers League Award for instruction at CUNY Queens (2013), a five-year Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Graduate Research Award from the National Flute Association (2016). 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 in the City from traditionally underrepresented groups.
Alice graduated from Yale University (BA), SUNY Purchase (MM, AD), and the CUNY Graduate Center (DMA, 2015). In addition to coordinating institutional giving and curating the chamber series Parlour Room Sessions at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at CUNY Queensborough Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, and SUNY Purchase College, and she teaches flute in Juilliard's Music Advancement Program. She maintains a private studio in New York and has served on the music faculty at the Aaron Copland School of Music at CUNY Queens College. Her research and pedagogical interests focus on the intersection between aesthetics and music cognition: the place where listener, performer, and composer meet.
Alice lives in Brooklyn, NY. When she's not musicking, she’s likely walking her dog or making ice cream.
Alice is committed to premiering new chamber music repertoire and is a founding member of several chamber music ensembles, including the flute and soprano duo conText (with Mary Hubbell), Ensemble 365, and the woodwind quintet Fiati Five. Alice is also a member of the New York-based collective The Curiosity Cabinet, whose interdisciplinary performances feature not only new music and staples of the 20th century, but also film, puppeteers, dance, narration, and acting. Her recent commissions and premieres have included works by Gregory Brown, Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Cody Forrest, Whitney George, Ryan Howard, Carrie Magin, Eric Nathan, and Inés Thiebaut, and she has premiered several works by members of the Long Island Composers Alliance with percussionist Cesare Papetti and pianist Derin Öge.
Among her accolades include winning the baroque concerto competition at SUNY Purchase and being named an invited participant in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition (2012). Alice also received the Brookshire award for musicological research and writing at SUNY Purchase, the Associated Music Teachers League Award for instruction at CUNY Queens (2013), a five-year Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Graduate Research Award from the National Flute Association (2016). 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 in the City from traditionally underrepresented groups.
Alice graduated from Yale University (BA), SUNY Purchase (MM, AD), and the CUNY Graduate Center (DMA, 2015). In addition to coordinating institutional giving and curating the chamber series Parlour Room Sessions at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at CUNY Queensborough Community College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, and SUNY Purchase College, and she teaches flute in Juilliard's Music Advancement Program. She maintains a private studio in New York and has served on the music faculty at the Aaron Copland School of Music at CUNY Queens College. Her research and pedagogical interests focus on the intersection between aesthetics and music cognition: the place where listener, performer, and composer meet.
Alice lives in Brooklyn, NY. When she's not musicking, she’s likely walking her dog or making ice cream.
No longer "news," but still noteworthy
I'm adding a new skill or job description to my palette: concert curator. My new chamber music series in 2017-18 at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Parlour Room Sessions, features fantastic musicians, lively conversation, and audience Q&A.
I joined the faculty at SUNY Purchase in August 2016.
I won the National Flute Association's Graduate Research Competition and presented my dissertation research at the annual convention in San Diego in August 2016.
I joined the music faculty at CUNY Queensborough Community College in January 2016.
I joined the administrative team at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in September 2015 in the development department
I was the student speaker at the CUNY Graduate Center's 51st Annual Commencement on May 27, 2015, in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The text of my speech is available here.
Fiati Five received a generous grant from the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation in 2015
Ensemble 365 was named a 2015 Queens New Music Festival proposal winner
I received the 2013 Associated Music Teachers League Award for my teaching at CUNY Queens College
Check out Mindy Kaufman's 2012 solo CD, French Flute Music -- liner notes by me!
I joined the faculty at SUNY Purchase in August 2016.
I won the National Flute Association's Graduate Research Competition and presented my dissertation research at the annual convention in San Diego in August 2016.
I joined the music faculty at CUNY Queensborough Community College in January 2016.
I joined the administrative team at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in September 2015 in the development department
I was the student speaker at the CUNY Graduate Center's 51st Annual Commencement on May 27, 2015, in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The text of my speech is available here.
Fiati Five received a generous grant from the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation in 2015
Ensemble 365 was named a 2015 Queens New Music Festival proposal winner
I received the 2013 Associated Music Teachers League Award for my teaching at CUNY Queens College
Check out Mindy Kaufman's 2012 solo CD, French Flute Music -- liner notes by me!
Ensembles
The Curiosity Cabinet
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Fiati Five
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conText
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Ensemble 365
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justmusic
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