Joshua Jones: HOT MUSIC

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Sizzling music from Berlin’s 1920’s hotspots

This programme gets off to a sizzling start with Welsh saxophonist Joshua Jones performing a delicious hybrid of jazz-classical in Schulhoff’s Hot-Sonate. The music then travels to the hotspots of Berlin’s cabaret culture via Kurt Weill’s Little Threepenny Music.

Joshua Jones
Saxophone

Colin Touchin
Guest conductor

Erwin Schulhoff
Hot-Sonate

Stefan Wolpe (Arr. Geert van Keulen)
Tango for Irma

Kurt Weill
Little Threepenny Music

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Born in South Wales, saxophonist Joshua Jones received his Bachelor of Music Degree with First Class Honours from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He was then awarded the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Scholarship to complete his Master of Music from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. His mentors include Lara James. Rob Buckland, Gerard McChrystal and Andy Scott.
Inspired by the Dutch school of saxophone playing, he undertook a further semester of study with Johan van der Linden at the Utrechts Conservatorium in the Netherlands which led to an invitation to perform alongside the innovative and trailblazing Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. Joshua Jones is a two-time winner of the June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Prize and a finalist of the Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize for the Most Outstanding Musician. He is a founding member of the Adventus Quartet and Chameleon and has appeared as soloist with the RWCMD Symphony Orchestra performing Michael Kamen's Concerto for Saxophone. He has performed for HRH The Prince of Wales and alongside Welsh artists Katherine Jenkins and Dame Shirley Bassey. Joshua Jones came to Hong Kong in 2017 and is currently a saxophone instructor at M.int Academy.