Martin Jones (Pianist)
Martin Jones ( born February 4, 1940 in Witney ) is an English pianist.
Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Guido Agosti, Guy Jonson and Gordon Green. In 1968 he gave his debut concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York. From 1971 to 1988 he was Pianist in Residence at Cardiff University.
As a concert pianist, he has performed in the UK, the U.S. and Canada. He led Dimitri Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto with the London Festival Orchestra in Central and South America, played Sergei Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Hallé Orchestra and Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
His repertoire includes works such as the Piano Concerto by Ferruccio Busoni, which he performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar, Xavier Scharwenkas First Piano Concerto and compositions by English composers such as Benjamin Britten, William Mathias, John McCabe and Constant Lambert. He played the premiere of the revised version of Alun Hoddinotts Third Piano Concerto at the Proms in 1974 and took his Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis at Decca Records on.
Since 1988, Jones devoted amplified recording. It originated recordings of the complete works for solo piano by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Percy Grainger, Karol Szymanowski, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frederic Mompou, Carlos Guastavino, Enrique Granados and Igor Stravinsky, among others also the piano sonatas Hoddinotts, sonatas by Karl Czerny and selecting albums Spanish masters. For the soundtrack of the film Howards End he played Percy Granger's Bridal Lullaby and Mock Morris.
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