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• Simon Hewitt Jones, Violinist

  English concert violinist. Asking essential questions about what's happening to music and the arts, and the role of the violin in contemporary world culture.

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My pianist has been taken ill and tomorrow’s recital, 1.10pm at St Mary’s Cathedral (entry free), will now be a performance of the Virtuoso Violin concert, with David Worswick.
It’s the last day of the Fringe festival - if you’re about to leave the city and you haven’t yet seen Virtuoso Violin then do come and […]

Our first recording is finished! Now everything is moving into production mode to make sure we meet the release date of 20th October. Concerts will be announced shortly, but look likely to be November 2nd (Cheltenham), 3rd (Swansea), 4th (Aldeburgh), and 7th (London).
Brewer & Boydell’s book, Imogen Holst: A Life In Music, has now been […]

I know the blog has been slow recently … lots of boring background work on new repertoire and new projects going on … it’ll be back on full steam again in the Autumn.
We go into the studio next week, and we’re having an informal preview session the afternoon before recording, at the Royal Academy of […]