Jonathan Hellyer Jones
Jonathan Hellyer Jones (harpsichord) was born in Warwickshire but has spent much of his life in Cambridge where he read music at St John's College. He was awarded a John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship, and in 1972 received the first Brian Runnett Memorial Prize for organ playing. He studied the harpsichord with Christopher Hogwood and the organ with Gillian Weir. He has performed on the organ and harpsichord in the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Malta, Italy, Austria, USA, Japan, and Mexico. In 1984 he founded The Cambridge Baroque Camerata to perform music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on period instruments. With his group, he has presented many concerts in France, Mexico and the UK, appearing on TV and radio. They have recorded several CDs, of which the most recent is Sacred Vocal Music from 18th Century Switzerland, with the choir of Gonville and Caius College. In a solo capacity, he has recorded music on eighteenth-century harpsichords and fortepianos as well as The Organ in the Age of Reason on the organ of Trinity College. In Norway and Sweden he has directed modern-instrument chamber orchestras in programmes of baroque music. In Cambridge he teaches at both universities and is Fellow, Organist, and Precentor at Magdalene College.