EVAN JONES, Associate Professor of Music Theory, holds the Ph.D. in music theory and the D.M.A. in cello performance from the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Jones supervises sophomore aural skills and teaches modal counterpoint, form and analysis, 20th-century styles, music since 1945, post-tonal aural skills, and readings in music theory. While at Eastman he coordinated and instructed a wide variety of music theory and aural skills courses; he also taught music theory at the University of Rochester and taught cello at Colgate University. Dr. Jones is a past winner of a Sproull Fellowship from the University of Rochester and a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; he was co-recipient of the inaugural Alfred Mann Dissertation Prize from the Eastman School and also won teaching prizes from both Eastman and the University of Rochester.

Dr. Jones has presented his research at numerous regional and national conferences, and has performed in Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Hall, among other venues. From 1997-99 Dr. Jones served as co-editor of Intégral, a peer-reviewed journal of music theory. His dissertation and related papers focus on issues of voice leading in diatonic space; other research interests include the music of Iannis Xenakis, early 20th-century rhythm, and the interaction of analysis and performance. His articles have appeared in Perspectives of New Music, Computer Music Journal, and Mapping in the Age of Digital Media. He is currently editing a forthcoming volume of essays on 20th-century string quartets and (with co-author Matthew Shaftel) completing an anthology of tonal music for sight singing and ear training to be published by Prentice Hall.