"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, 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 with Chamber Music Campania (Italy), Composers Now Festival, Ensemble Échappé, International Contemporary Ensemble, Look and Listen Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sugar Hill Salon, and Yale-China Music Exchange in China. She is a member of the New York-based collective The Curiosity Cabinet, whose interdisciplinary performances combine 20th and 21st century music 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.
During the first year of the pandemic, 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. The project led to additional open instrumentation sets, #tinyefforts2021 and #tinyefforts2022. Her recent commissions come from Amity Trio, Decoda (Carnegie Hall), Gaudete Brass, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Millikin University, 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. She currently serves as the Treasurer of the Board of the National Flute Association.
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 teaches flute at Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program and Montclair State University and is a sought-after teaching artist, master class clinician, and workshop facilitator, having led workshops for Ensemble Connect, the Frost School (University of Miami), Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, International Contemporary Ensemble, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York Philharmonic, Opportunity Music Project, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Sphinx, and University of New Mexico. 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. 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, UpBeat (an El Sistema program in the Bronx), and Luzerne Music Center.
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.
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 with Chamber Music Campania (Italy), Composers Now Festival, Ensemble Échappé, International Contemporary Ensemble, Look and Listen Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sugar Hill Salon, and Yale-China Music Exchange in China. She is a member of the New York-based collective The Curiosity Cabinet, whose interdisciplinary performances combine 20th and 21st century music 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.
During the first year of the pandemic, 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. The project led to additional open instrumentation sets, #tinyefforts2021 and #tinyefforts2022. Her recent commissions come from Amity Trio, Decoda (Carnegie Hall), Gaudete Brass, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Millikin University, 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. She currently serves as the Treasurer of the Board of the National Flute Association.
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 teaches flute at Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program and Montclair State University and is a sought-after teaching artist, master class clinician, and workshop facilitator, having led workshops for Ensemble Connect, the Frost School (University of Miami), Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, International Contemporary Ensemble, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York Philharmonic, Opportunity Music Project, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Sphinx, and University of New Mexico. 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. 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, UpBeat (an El Sistema program in the Bronx), and Luzerne Music Center.
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.
Current appointments
The Juilliard School, Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Career Services
The Juilliard School, Music Advancement Program Flute Faculty
Montclair State University, Flute Faculty
Luzerne Music Center, Senior Session Flute Faculty
The Juilliard School, Music Advancement Program Flute Faculty
Montclair State University, Flute Faculty
Luzerne Music Center, Senior Session Flute Faculty
Past appointments
UpBeat,,flute faculty
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, Music department faculty
SUNY Purchase, Music department faculty
CUNY Queensborough Community College, Music department faculty
CUNY Queens College, Music department faculty
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Institutional Giving Manager and concert curator
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, Music department faculty
SUNY Purchase, Music department faculty
CUNY Queensborough Community College, Music department faculty
CUNY Queens College, Music department faculty
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Institutional Giving Manager and concert curator
Awards
Ensemble 365's album Eastern Currents has been named a National Honorable Mention Finalist for The American Prize for Chamber Music Performance in 2018-19.
I was a member of the inaugural CreateNYC Leadership Accelerator cohort for New York City cultural workers in June 2018.
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 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
I was a member of the inaugural CreateNYC Leadership Accelerator cohort for New York City cultural workers in June 2018.
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 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
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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