Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones (conductor) is a University Senior Lecturer in Music at Cambridge, and Fellow, Director of Music, and Director of Studies in Music at Selwyn College. After studying violin, organ, and composition at the Royal College of Music, he read Music as an Organ Scholar at St Peter's College, Oxford. Before defecting to the East, he held a Junior Lectureship in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was a Senior Scholar of St Peter's College, and the first Burton Senior Scholar of Oriel College. His main research interests are in music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially that of Carissimi and Handel, and in performance practice; he teaches in all fields of the Music Tripos: technical, historical, analytical, and practical. He is currently (and for the foreseeable future) working on a critical edition of all of Handel's solo cantatas for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe; some of these editions were performed for the first time at the CHOG concerts in 2004 and 2006. In 2004 he was awarded one of the University's Pilkington Prizes for Teaching in recognition of his achievement in convincing undergraduates that fugue is fun. The editions and translations that he has prepared for CHOG have been used by other opera companies worldwide, both in live performances and in recordings. His edition and translation of Alcina was performed by English Touring Opera during their UK tour in 2005. His critical edition of Rodelinda, published by the HHA, has been performed at major opera houses throughout the world, including Glyndebourne (conducted by William Christie and others), Munich (Ivor Bolton), Göttingen (Nicholas McGegan), and the New York Met (Harry Bicket), and for productions in San Francisco, Toronto, Dallas, and Halle. For the Cambridge Handel Opera Group, which he founded in 1985, he has edited, translated, and conducted eleven operas by Handel. He is disappointed that his recent article on staging Handel operas in Early Music has attracted only messages of support.