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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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For all of you who’ve been waiting for the Imogen Holst String Chamber Music disc - perhaps the most jinxed project I’ve ever been involved with (not least because of my own inexperience) - it is ALMOST here. Just don’t ask me to pin a date on it :). We’re on the home straight now. […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZJR-XlUT4
I believe this is actually a recording of me playing when I was very young, though I don’t remember who the pianist is or where or when it was recorded. How it has turned up on some weird animation mashup beats me.

Tommy was working on Imo next door during a Virtuoso Violin rehearsal, and 30 minutes later what do you know, but he’s written a full ‘News Theme’ jingle for us to play!
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Anyone want to licence it out for your Radio or TV station? Get a bit of VV on your airwaves!

Tommy & I recently recorded an arrangement by composer Michael Jennings based on the theme of a Polish Tango, as part of an installation for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival by sound artist Janek Schaefer.
Janek’s show opens on Friday 16th at the Huddersfield Art Gallery, and runs until 5 January 2008.
As the music emanates […]

I’ve been meaning to do this for ages: audio snippets of things I’m working on.
These are rough drafts - literally performed to a laptop with no edits - so you can’t download them, as the sound quality is inevitably not what you’d expect elsewhere. But it’ll give you a taste of things to come. Some […]

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 […]

Soprano Dima Bawab and Palestinian soloists perform the Queen of 1001 Nights aria with the Choir of London Orchestra conducted by Tim Brown at the Palestine Mozart Festival, Bethlehem, April 2007.
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Recorded in Bethlehem using the internal camera/mic of an Apple MacBook

I don’t think I ever fully introduced to you the Choir of London and the Palestine Mozart Festival, the websites of which can be found here and here respectively. I’m simply a guest of these amazing organizations (giving chamber music performances in the first week; leading the COL Orchestra in the […]

I just heard two colleagues reading through Wieniawski’s fun little Etude-Caprices, and remembered that David Worswick & I made an MP3 recording for the radio broadcasts that we did last December to promote the Virtuoso Violin tour.
Grab it here!:
Download Free MP3: Wieniawski, Etude-Caprice No.1 (excerpt)

And perhaps I can take this opportunity to remind you that, […]

Elizabeth Roloff, Organist

I’m in the Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem. Behind me, organist Elizabeth Roloff (left) is practicing; in a little over an hour, we (cellist Sophie Rivlin and violinist Clemency Burton-Hill) will perform Mozart’s Church Sonatas in a concert here. I’ve opened my laptop and… lo and behold, there’s an open Wifi […]

The Violin Player - a live recording of my brother’s beautiful little violin piece from Wednesday’s concert (video below). The studio version of this track is now available for download from iTunes, Napster and all good music download sites. Click here to download it at iTunes:

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