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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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I didn’t do any teaching beyond the occasional masterclass during the last few times I was here. But this time, I volunteered to teach for a couple of afternoons.
It took me at least half an hour with the first student to realize that calling the strings ‘G, D, A, and E’ wasn’t going to cut […]

My brother recently returned from a fascinating month-long trip to Los Angeles, where he assisted composer David Buckley on post-production of the forthcoming Jackie Chan film, The Forbidden Kingdom.
Whilst there, he also contributed to Town Creek, a horror film that’s set to appear sometime between now and Halloween.
There was a little leftover bit of the […]

I’ve a new role: Artistic Director of Music And The City. It starts on 17 April in London, and you’re invited!
MATC is a musical evening for amateur and professional musicians, inspired by the salon culture of 1920s Vienna. Think of it as a musical meeting point; an opportunity to explore, discuss and play music with […]

I should have done this ages ago.
The schedule is finally updated for the Spring … do take a look here to see all the new concert listings.

I’ve just realised that the deadline for this was Monday and I never posted it on the blog before now. Oh well. I hope you knew about it already if you wanted to enter
But don’t worry, if you’ve missed this opportunity but would still like to write something for ‘Two Screeching Violins’ (as […]

In addition to more concerts and projects, I’ll be branching out and expanding my tuition class in the new year. As well as London, you can also come to play to me in Berlin, Germany (February onwards). And we’ll see what happens from there…
UK people (I do have students from as far as Brighton and […]

If you’ve been following the saga of our Imogen Holst recording, you’ll know it’s not all gone to plan…
Recording woes aside, the concerts are going ahead nonetheless, and we’ll be performing in Cheltenham (2 November), Swansea (3rd November), Aldeburgh (4th November), and London Hampstead (7th November).
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Programme will include […]

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 […]

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“To complement the book, Simon & Thomas Hewitt Jones and Court Lane Music have recorded a new CD of her significant string chamber music: the Phantasy Quartet, Sonata for Violin and Cello, String Quintet, String Trio No.1, Duo for Viola and Piano and The Fall of the Leaf. The CD can be […]

If you’re in London (UK) tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday 5 June, come to the Virgin Megastore in Piccadilly Circus (classical section) at around 4.45pm. Violinist David Worswick & I are playing a short set of about 30 minutes of music from the Virtuoso Violin show that we’ve been touring over the past few months. It should […]

I’m really sorry to announce this at such short notice but the recital at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge this coming Friday has been cancelled because of a major error by the promoter. I’m afraid I’ve only just learnt about this. They were extremely apologetic, but I’m sorry for the disappointment.

Obviously this is very frustrating and […]