Derek Jones
Derek Jones has enjoyed an extensive performing career throughout Australia, Europe, the USA and Asia. Solo appearances include the Melbourne Symphony, the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the last of these taking him to Carnegie Hall, New York.
Derek has toured Europe and Asia with recital performances in Manchester, Dublin, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Italy, and in 2016 performed in London and Canada. He has also appeared as soloist for ABC Radio in live broadcasts and has recorded recitals for ABC Classic FM.
In 2008 he released Sun Down Moon Up, a collection of his own compositions and improvisations. His Move recordings include the 2015 release Flute Perspectives, a collection of solo Australian contemporary works.
His career has included principal flute positions with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. He has made guest teaching appearances at the Paris Conservatoire, the Geneva Conservatoire, Graz Universität, Trento Conservatorio, Trieste Conservatorio, the Royal College of Music London, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Boston University, the University of British Columbia, Victoria University (Canada), the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, the Jeju Island Festival in Korea, and the Taiwan Flute School.
Derek is Head of Woodwind at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne.
Derek Jones is featured on the following titles
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 4
Derek Jones’s fourth Flute Perspectives volume gathers contemporary Australian flute music with Jerry Wong and Joshua Hyde. Sonatas, solos and electronics chart lyric landscape, multiphonic colour and modernist drive.
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 3
The third release in Derek Jones’s series, Flute Perspectives 3 continues to convey the synergy of Australia’s varied classical flute repertoire, with newly commissioned works, some recorded here for the first time.
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 2
Derek Jones (flute) and Cameron Roberts (piano) present a programme of Australian works by Anne Boyd, Stuart Greenbaum, Rohan Phillips, Mark Pollard and Richard Meale.
Spirit Wind
Flautist Derek Jones presents seven free-flowing improvisations inspired by a universal spirit shared across musical cultures, layering flute lines over synthesiser soundscapes, drones and deep gamelan-like bells.
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Flute Perspectives, Vol. 1
Flautist Derek Jones and pianist Leigh Harrold present this anthology of contemporary Australian flute music, from Sculthorpe’s Torres Strait cycle to solo and duo works by leading local composers.
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Derek Jones also appears on
Peter Sculthorpe
A retrospective compilation of favourite chamber works by the late Peter Sculthorpe, drawn from Move’s own catalogue. Torres Strait song, Kakadu landscapes and intimate string writing are heard in performances by leading Australian musicians.
China Wind: the clarinet music of Julian Yu, Vol. 1
Five chamber and concertante works for clarinet with strings, piano and flute show Julian Yu drawing on the inner structures of Chinese tradition rather than its surface colour, with remarkable versatility and emotional range.
Victorian Time Machine
The Victorian Time Machine, directed by Richard David Hames, grew out of the Victorian College of the Arts as an instrumental and vocal ensemble for new music. This 1979 programme pairs Guillaume Dufay with works by Hames, Barry Conyngham and James Fulkerson.
