Samuel Jones

Samuel Jones (born June 2, 1935) is an American composer and conductor.

Life
Samuel Jones was born in Inverness, Mississippi in 1935. He received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Millsaps College in 1957 and subsequently attended Eastman School of Music, studying composition under Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers, and Wayne Barlow, and conducting under Richard Lert and William Steinberg. He graduated from Eastman with a M.A. and Ph.D in music composition. Jones served as conductor for a number of prominent American orchestras including the Rochester Philharmonic, before founding, in 1975, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He also served as it’s first dean for six years. After becoming Professor Emeritus of Composition and Conducting at Rice University in 1997 Jones moved to Seattle, Washington where he currently serves as Composer in Residence of the Seattle Symphony.

Works

Theater
A Christmas Memory
The Temptation of Jesus

Orchestral
Aurum Aurorae
Chaconne and Burlesque
Chorale-Overture for Organ and oOrchestra
Elegy
Fanfare and Celebration
Festival Fanfare
In Retrospect
Janus
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Listen Now, My Children
Overture for a City
Roundings: Musings and Meditations on Texas New Deal Murals
Three Suites From Roundings
I: Hymn To The Earth
II: Machines
III: The Open Range
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 3 (Palo Duro Canyon)
A Symphonic Requiem (Variations on a Theme of Howard Hanson)

Chorus and Orchestra
Canticles of Time (Symphony No. 2)
Eudora’s Fable: The Shoe Bird
Gaudeo
Reunion Benediction
The Seas of God (Fanfare-Overture)
The Trumpet of the Swan

Concerto
Tuba Concerto
Horn Concerto (pending premier)

Solo and Chamber
Four Haiku
How Do I Love Thee?
Piano Sonata
Sonata for Cello and Piano
Sonata for Unaccompanied Viola (In the Style of J.S. Bach)
Spaces for Unaccompanied Cello & Narrator
Two Movements for Harpsichord