Charles Jones (composer)

Charles Jones (born 21 June 1910 in Tamworth, † 1997) was an American composer of Canadian origin.

Jones studied at the Juilliard School of Music and with Aaron Copland. From 1939 to 1944 he worked as a teacher at Mills College in Oakland, California, and from 1954 to 1961 at the Juilliard School. Among his pupils were, among others, Webster A. Young, Harry Crowl Lamott, Adaskin Murray and David Macdonald.

Jones composed several symphonies, hymns and suites, an allegory and a Cassation for orchestra, a concerto for four violins and orchestra, chamber music, piano pieces, cantatas, and a song cycle.