Courtney Jones

The newest directions in 21st Century trumpet performance are being explored and defined by Courtney D. Jones, an award-winning Bach performing and recording artist who has also emerged as a leading figure in contemporary performance, pedagogy, and chamber conducting. Jones has promoted music education and instrumental performance in schools through the Music Outreach Program at UCLA, The Harmony Project, Trumpets 4 Kids, the Nat King Cole Hope, Inc. Foundation and the Gateways Music Festival. Each of these programs offers schoolchildren arts-in-education opportunities that provide underserved, inner-city students, and communities with musical training and mentorship that would otherwise be inaccessible. Dr. Jones is in high demand as a soloist, clinician, and adjudicator while transcending stylistic boundaries performing throughout North America, Internationally, and is currently Professor of Trumpet and Artistic Director of Jazz & Chamber Ensembles at Florida Atlantic University.