Alexander Jones

Alexander Jones began learning the double bass with Gethin Griffith at the age of seven, and has since studied with Ronan Dunne, Tom Goodman, Graham Mitchell, Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE and Dominic Seldis, and has performed in masterclasses with Božo Paradžik, Edison Ruiz, and Jiří Hudec. Alex completed his MA at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021, and was awarded the institutional prize, DipRAM, for an outstanding final recital. Since graduating, Alex has become a regular player with Hugo Ticciati’s chamber orchestra, O/Modernt, and enjoys touring world-class concert halls, such as Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, and London’s Wigmore Hall. Based
in London, Alex is a regular guest with the Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, and is currently principal double bass with English Touring Opera.

Away from the double bass, Alex is a keen composer and academic. He undertook his undergraduate studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge, reading Music, from which he graduated with a First Class with Distinction in 2020.

Alex won the Society for Music Analysis’ inaugural Undergraduate Prize for “outstanding contribution in this field’’, and his writings on Schoenberg and Dvořák are published and housed in international libraries. Alex won BBC Young Composer of the Year in 2016, and his works have been performed by members of the Aurora and BBC
Symphony Orchestras at the BBC Proms and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.