Julia Jones
Female, Person
1961 –
Who is Julia Jones?
Julia Jones is an English conductor.
Jones grew up on the Isle of Man, and attended the Chetham's School of Music, where she studied piano, clarinet, and singing. She continued her music studies at the University of Bristol, in conducting, piano, clarinet, and harpsichord, completing her B.A. Honours degree in 1983. She later studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where her teachers included Paul Hamburger and Gordon Black, and at the National Opera Studio. Her other conducting teachers included Moshe Atzmon, Miklós Erdélyi, Ferenc Nagy, and Erwin Acel.
Jones moved to Germany in her 20's to take up a post as a repetiteur at the Oper Köln. She has also been a repetiteur at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. From 1991 to 1995, she was a kapellmeisterin and assistant to GMD Alicja Mounk at the Ulm Municipal Theatre. From 1995 to 1997, she held a first kapellmeisterin post at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. From 1998 to 2002, she was principal conductor of the Basel Theatre/Basel Opera. Her original contract in Basel was through the summer of 2003, but she resigned in 2002 with immediate effect after reports of disputes with the musicians of the Sinfonieorchester Basel.
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- Born
- Apr 28, 1961
- Nationality
- England
- Education
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- Chetham's School of Music
- University of Bristol
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on July 23, 2013
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