susan jones

violin, viola & fiddle

Susan Jones is a versatile free-lance violinist, who plays styles ranging from classical to jazz, with many stops along the way, including: rock, country, klezmer and mariachi. She has brought her classical music to Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Centerand the National Gallery of Art Terrace Cafe. Her jazz venues include the One Step Down, the Corcoran Jazz Series and Blues Alley. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she has worked as a full-time musician since 1978.

As Leader:

The Susan Jones Jazz Quartet
Music: 1999 CD Release, "Violin Dreams"
2004 CD release "Nuts and Bolts" and
2006 CD release"Violin Caliente"
Radio: CD currently in rotation on WPFW/89.3 FM
WRNR/103.1, WAER in Syracuse, NY, WYPR in Baltimore, WCNI in Connecticut and Whole Wheat Radio/on line

Currently playing with:

Machaya Klezmer Band
String of Pearls (classical)
Mariachi De las Compadres
"Octoberskies" (folk-rock)

Has played with:

Ray Price at the Birchmere 2007
Clay Aiken, Baltimore and Norfolk 2006
Andrew White - Corcoran School Jazz Series,
One Step Down, 1999
Barry White - "The 1999 Icon Tour", w/Earth Wind and Fire; Constitution Hall 1986; and 1976
Dion Warwick, 1999 (Baltimore Artscape)
Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, 1997 (ex-Led Zeppelin - US Air Arena)
Aretha Franklin, 1997 (Kennedy Center)
Stevie Wonder, 1996 (Constitution Hall)
Mariachi - "De las Americas" 1984
Lady Finger, 1979
Kennedy Center Orchestra 1977

Theatre:

Ford's Theatre:
Reunion - 2000 season
Paper Moon, 1997
Elmer Gantry, 1995
1776, 2003 season

Masterclasses:

Mariachi Masterclass, Tuscon International Mariachi Conference, 1986;
Klezmatics, NYC 1992; Guarneri String Quartet, UMD.

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LINKS:
IAJE