About the Director
Dr. Scott A. Jones
Music Associate Professor
Director of Bands
Composer and director of bands Dr. Scott A. Jones leads The Concordia College Band. You’ll also find him in the classroom, teaching instrumental conducting and instrumental music education, or in his office or studio composing. Jones is mastermind behind the new Wind Band Institute held on campus.
From 1995 to 2005, Jones served as director of instrumental music at Apple Valley (Minn.) High School. He also served as instrumental music coordinator for all fifth through 12th-grade band programs on the west side of Independent School District 196. His teaching career began in the Teays Valley Schools in Ashville, Ohio, in the fall of 1989.
Jones has nurtured the creation of 17 new compositions for wind band and chamber winds since 1999, with commissioned composers including David Gillingham, Augusta Read Thomas, Libby Larsen, Clark McAlister and several others. Student musicians under Jones’ leadership have also collaborated with artists such as Frederick Fennell, Eiji Oue, Aaron Jay Kernis and Frank Battisti.
A native of Fairfax, Va., Jones received his undergraduate degree in music education from Ohio State University in Columbus in 1989 and a master’s degree in music education from Vander Cook College of Music in Chicago in 1995. In June 2003, Jones completed his doctorate in music from the University of Minnesota. He was named Music Educator of the Year by the Minnesota Music Educators Association in 2002, and is presently serving the Minnesota Band Directors Association as past-president. Jones was one of three school band conductors from the United States selected to participate in the 2004 National Band Association International Conducting Symposium in Rome.
Scott A. Jones
