Jesse Jones is an associate professor of composition at Oberlin Conservatory and director of its Division of Contemporary Music. He’s also a much-performed composer whose work has been commissioned by orchestras and chamber music groups around the world and released on numerous recordings.
The latest comes from Oberlin Conservatory’s own Oberlin Music label. Titled In Profile, it features five diverse works by Jones, composed between 2009 and 2015, each recorded here for the first time. The recordings feature the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble and Oberlin Orchestra, several Oberlin faculty members, guest musicians and former students.
The tracks include “…neither am I a bloodless angel” (2012), for cello and piano; 2009’s “Snippet Variations” for clarinet, violin, cello and piano; the double wind quintet “So Eden Sank to Grief”; the Galileo-inspired “…innumerable stars, scattered in clusters,” an orchestral piece from 2013; and solo guitar piece “Languido,” written for and performed by Dieter Hennings Yeomans.
Learn more at oberlin.edu/news/faculty-composer-jesse-jones.