Zach Jones

Zach Jones – Piano

Zach Jones is a composer, pianist, drummer, guitarist, educator, and published scholar from Bethlehem, PA. As a composer, he likes to create an emotional musical experience similar to his own experiences of classical, film, and ambient rock music. Starting out as a rock transcriber and songwriter in high school, Zach has since explored composing acoustic and electronic concert music, incidental music for theatre, and short film scores including virtual reality films. As a composition fellow, his music has been premiered at the nief-norf Summer Festival in Tennessee, Cortona Sessions for New Music in Tuscany, and Atlantic Music Festival in Maine.

Zach has also presented at regional, national, and international conferences since college and has premiered his piano music in Sweden, Italy, and across the United States. He holds degrees from Lafayette College, where he was a Marquis Scholar, EXCEL Scholar, and Phi Beta Kappa inductee, and Arizona State University, where he was a teaching assistant for music theory and treasurer for Arizona State’s chapter of the Society of Composers, Inc. His composition teachers included Rodney Rogers, Kirk O’Riordan, Jody Rockmaker, and Robert Paterson, and his piano teachers were Peter Carpenter and Anna Maria Marzullo.

Through his many years of piano training, Zach learned to value creativity and expressivity over flashiness. By focusing on creating and expressing, he finds music-making and performing more rewarding and self-fulfilling. He aims to inspire his students to express themselves, achieve meaningful performances, and create lasting connections with music.

Aside from musicking, Zach likes to stay active, travel, and watch hockey to beat the desert heat.

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